The accepted explanation seems wrong to me. Whether or not functions are first class objects or not, the behavior of def is a matter of design choice and in thi

The accepted explanation seems wrong to me. Whether or not functions are first class objects or not, the behavior of def is a matter of design choice and in this case the wrong choice has been made. All the rationales are broken -- they're uncommon use cases and perfectly easy to implement without the behavior, i like Python but this is a wart.