syntactic sugar for def?

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I remember that 'class' is sugar for type(....).
>
> I don't remember if 'def' is sugar for something besides lambda.
>
> Any clues for me?  Heck, I'll even be grateful for outright answers!

If you mean is there a way to create functions using reflection, you
can use types.FunctionType.  Like type() requires a dict,
FunctionType() requires a code object that must first be compiled.

Cheers,
Ian