syntactic sugar for def?

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/28/2011 5:26 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

> I don't remember if 'def' is sugar for something besides lambda.

That is a bit backwards.
   lambda x: expr(x)
is syntactic sugar for
   def <lambda>(x): return expr(x)
   del <lambda>
;-)

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Terry Jan Reedy