[issue33447] Asynchronous lambda syntax

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

The only thing special about functions defined with lambda expressions rather than def statements is the generic name attribute '<lambda>' instead of a specific name.  PEP8 intentionally and properly discourages 'name = lambda ...' as inferior to 'def name(...'.

For your example, 

async def foo(a, b): return 5 + await bar(b)

For inline function expressions, as in function calls, the obvious proposals would be to reuse 'async' in f(async lambda a, b: ...) or a new keyword, such as 'alambda' or 'asynclambda' or ... . Either would need multiple use cases to justify not just using async def first.

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nosy: +terry.reedy

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