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# That inspired me to have a bit of my own fun. Here's my awful Python take on it.

[(n, (lambda x: ("fizz" if x % 3 == 0 else "") + ("buzz" if x % 5 == 0 else ""))(n)) for n in range(1,51)]

That python code made me cringe. decorators, parsing, compiling and evals? You win.

No metaclasses or descriptors though, still needs some work.

Oh, you want metaclasses? How about this?

print(type("",(),{"__call__": lambda self, start, end: [(n, (lambda x: ("fizz" if x % 3 == 0 else "") + ("buzz" if x % 5 == 0 else ""))(n)) for n in range(start,end+1)] })()(1,50))

Here's my python version that uses the y-combinator: https://gist.github.com/sirpengi/3443999