Idea: "Frozen" inner function

[Steve Horne]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:04:10 +0100, Michael Butscher
<mbutscher at gmx.de> wrote:

>Steve Horne wrote:

>> Maybe Python is doing the (1) thing, but that leaves me wondering how
>> come my existing code is working.
>
>Before closures were introduced in Python (about 2.2 or so), it was a 
>common idiom to write:
>
>lambda a=a: ...
>
>to access an outer variable a. Maybe you are using something like that.

No. I used to, but it was a big relief when I didn't need to any more.

I'm not so sure now that I change variables much after using them like
this.

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