A great feature of Javascript is function statements. You can do this:
(function myFunc(){
doSomething();
doSomethingElse();
})();
Which is a way to declare a function and call it without having to refer to it twice. Can that be mimified on Python?
Python does not have this syntax for functions. It does, however, support the lambda syntax which can be used in this way. However, a lambda is an expression and not a statement, so it is limited.
(lambda x: x*x)(10)
would return 100
When this feature is needed, just use the def statement to define a function
...
def tmp(x,y):
foo(x);
foo(y);
tmp(12,24)
...
defis a statement in Python.