Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with:
>> def somefunc(x): return x*5
>>
>> How is that a multi-line function definition?
>
> but that's namespace pollution! if you do this, nobody will never ever be
> able to use the name somefunc again! won't somebody please think about
> the children!
If you use that as an inner function, it only "pollutes" the local
namespace of that function. How's that influencing the rest of the
world?
Sybren
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