[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Jun 1 12:49:24 EDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:14:31AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> # Your proposal.
> def T as (lambda: Typevar)()
> def x as (lambda: sympy.Symbol)()

This is wrong, I misunderstood Alan. I wrongly interpreted him as saying 
that the expression on the right would be *called* and must return a 
one-argument function, but that's not what he said.

Apologies for the confusion.


-- 
Steve


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