
Oct. 21, 2005
3:42 p.m.
At 11:13 AM 10/21/2005 -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
I don't have a strong sense for how important these changes are. I don't think the old behavior was documented, but I can imagine some code depending on these implementation details.
I'm pretty sure I've seen code in the field (e.g. recipes in the online Python cookbook) that checked for a function's name being '<lambda>'. That's also a thing that's likely to show up in people's doctests.