On 2019-10-27 12:14 p.m., Eric V. Smith wrote:
On 10/27/2019 10:35 AM, Soni L. wrote:
that's a waste of a perfectly good name in the namespace.

Names are cheap. If "wasting" a name is a concern, then perhaps Python isn't the language for you. It also lacks local scopes inside code blocks, for example, which also "waste" names, as compared to say C.

that's why I use nested functions.


Eric
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