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    >>> let = lambda
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        let = lambda
               ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Am I misunderstanding you?

>>> let = lambda x: 2*x

>>> print let(4)

Edit: Awesome, downvoted for helping.

That's not what they mean. The usage they are discussing is more like this, I believe. In a functional context, instead of doing:

    print expensive_computation(), expensive_computation()

You can do:

    (lambda x: print x, x)(expensive_computation())

Which would be equivalent to, with an imaginary let syntax:

    (let x be expensive_computation(): print x, x)