> Can anyone tear this idea apart?

`exec` and `eval` come to mind... I'm sure there are also nasty `inspect` hacks 
this could break, too?

def foo(a, b):
    x = a + b
    if not x:
        return None
    sleep(1)  # A calculation that does not use x
    return eval("x")
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