> But it IS stored! There is no way for it to be evaluated without it
> being stored!
>
I'm not sure I understand you here. How is the late-bound default
"stored" when one side of a ternary is "not stored"?
This seems like dishonest argument. I'm not even sure what point you think it is making.
Every time I write a function, everything the function does needs to be STORED. The body is *stored* in the .__code__ attribute. Other things are stored in .__annotations__ and elsewhere. A function is an OBJECT, and everything about it has to be attributes of that object.
<code object foo at 0x7f167e539710, file "<ipython-input-7-3c44060a0872>", line 1>
A late binding isn't that one thing about a function that never gets stored, but floats in the ether magically ready to operate on a function call by divine intervention. It HAS TO describe *something* attached to the function object, doing *something* by some means.
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