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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:05:07 -0600
Subject: Re: Lambda function Turing completeness
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:26 +0700, Musical Notation wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to write a Turing-complete lambda function (which does
>> not depend on named functions) in Python?
>
>
> lambda s: eval(s)

eval is a named function.