[Python-Dev] Questionable AST wibbles

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Oct 21 17:42:44 CEST 2005


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.



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list