It’s gross to have a function floating off somewhere that has no true reuse value at all and doesn’t live close to where it is used.
I like Python but this is probably my biggest gripe.
I like Python but this is probably my biggest gripe.
def func(g_func, a, b):
g_func(a, b)
def scope():
c = "c"
def anon(a, b):
print(a, b, c)
print(id(anon))
return func(anon, "a", "b")
def func(g_func, a, b):
g_func(a, b)
def scope():
# NOTE: The `|a, b|: (...)` syntax is made up
c = "c"
return func(
|a, b|: (
print(a, b, c)
),
"a", "b"
)
Note that the `anon` function in `scope` is only compiled once. You can verify this by copying the first version to a file named `temp.py` and then running `python -m dis temp.py`. You can also run `scope()` twice in a row and see that the same object ID is printed both times.
That said, for purely aesthetic reasons, I would like it if Python had some kind of syntax like version 2, but that's tricky with significant whitespace, and I've never found the lack of such syntax to be particularly limiting in Python.
Apparently it is possible to delete a function.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10367414/delete-function
>>> def f(): None
...
>>> del f
My other comment in this thread is relevant too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197904