On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Not necessarily *compile* time, but the distinction is between when the > function is defined (which may at compile time, or it may be at run time) > versus when the function is called.
I'd treat the def/lambda statement as "compile time" and the () operator as "run time". ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list