Re: what's wrong with "lambda x : print x/60,x%60"

Steve Holden wrote:
Paul Rubin wrote: 
....  I think it's a Python weakness that you can't declare a local var like
in other languages, to go out of scope at the end of the current block, e.g.:

  if cond:
      my x = 7    # make a new scope for x, goes out of scope at end of if

If this genuinely troubles you then you can always isolate the scope with a function, though of course you also no longer have the code inline then. 
Or, if you must:

def called(function):
    function()
    return called

then:

@called
def called():
    <whatever>

;-)

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-Scott David Daniels
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