Barry wrote:
On 20 Feb 2022, at 15:35, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: Greetings list. Out of curiosity, why doesn't Python accept def (): return '---' () Where the function name is ''?Because there is no variable that is holding a ref to the code. So it’s pointless.
Fun fact, it can be done, but it's (afaik) then (almost) unusable... >>> a Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'a' is not defined >>> locals()['a'] = 42 >>> a 42 >>> locals()[''] = 42 >>> locals()[''] 42 >>> locals()[''] = (lambda x: x*42) >>> locals()[''](1) 42 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
