On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> and then the decorator could wrap the function. I'm not entirely sure >> I could implement it reliably, but even leaving that aside, having to >> put "lambda:" in front of everything is pretty ugly. > > Note that "lambda: []" can also be spelled "list".
In that particular example, yes. I kept it in the large form to maintain the parallel with the version I was quoting. But if the decorator were to be written, it would probably be something along the lines of "if the default is callable, do the late-binding magic", so 'list' would work just fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list