Many thanks to those of you who responded to my question about anonymous functions with local variables, filling me in on
e) do something else clever and Pythonic that I don't know about yet? by pointing out that I can use (among other good things) lambda with default arguments. That should suit my immediate needs well, since I don't need to maintain state (or avoid maintaning state); I may also look into closures (possibly anonymous ones?) and callable classes if I need to go beyond this. And, of course, if the code is complex enough, then one should give up the anonymous function and name it. Rest assured that I will _not_ be attempting to write "let" in Python and use it. It looks like Python may be every much as big an improvement over C++ as I had hoped. Dave Wonnacott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
