Inline returning of function objects

[dataangel]

I've been finding more and more crazy stuff that you can do in Python,
and I was curious if it could handle this (it couldn't):

def foo(x):
return def bar(y):
pass

I was wondering why there's support for this for lambda functions but
not normal functions. I tried variations in the syntax like surrounding
the function definition with parenthesis but none worked.

[Thomas Heller]

dataangel <k0*****@kzoo.edu> writes:

I've been finding more and more crazy stuff that you can do in Python,
and I was curious if it could handle this (it couldn't):

def foo(x):
return def bar(y):
pass

I was wondering why there's support for this for lambda functions but
not normal functions. I tried variations in the syntax like
surrounding the function definition with parenthesis but none worked.

but you can write:

def foo(x):
def bar(y):
pass
return bar

Thomas