On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:02:53 -0700, Andrew Savige wrote: > Notice that this code uses Perl's lexical scope to hide the > %private_hash variable, but not the public_fn() function.
You might try: def public_fn(param): private_hash = publicfn.private_hash return private_hash[param] public_fn.private_hash = {'A':42, 'B':69} (You don't have to assign public_fn.private_hash to a local variable, but you might want to, to avoid extra typing, if you refer to private_hash more than a couple of times in the function). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list