Thanks, that makes more sense. I got tripped up by the function returning a function thing and (for a while) thought _ was some sort of spooky special variable.
- mdf > On Dec 28, 7:53 am, "Matthew Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get class Searcher(object) but can't for the life of me see why > > (except to be intentionally obtuse) one would use the def > > searcher(rex) pattern which I assure you would call with > > searcher(r)(t) right? > > > > The whole point of the thread was performance across multiple searches > for the one pattern. Thus one would NOT do > searcher(r)(t) > each time a search was required; one would do > s = searcher(r) > ONCE, and then do > s(t) > each time ... > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Matthew Franz http://www.threatmind.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
