[Python-ideas] Anonymous blocks (again):

[Terry Jan Reedy]

On 5/13/2013 11:40 AM, Juancarlo Añez wrote:

> The above works perfectly defining a function for the embedded
> expression using a synthetic name, like "c123", and passing it to closure():
>
>     def c123():
>          match_this()
>          match_that()
>
>     closure(c123)
>
>
> My quest is because the above seems quite unpythonic.

I disagree that the above is unpythonic. In Python, functions are 
objects like everything else. Define them, pass them to functions, like 
anything else. 'Unpythonic' is treating functions as special, other than 
that they are called (have a call method).

Terry