On Sep 3, 12:19 am, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Greetings, List! > > The recent thread about a recursive function in a class definition led > me back to a post about bindfunc from Arnaud, and from there I found > Michele Simionato's decorator module (many thanks! :-), and from there I > began to wonder... > > from decorator import decorator > > @decorator > def recursive1(func, *args, **kwargs): > return func(func, *args, **kwargs) > > @recursive1 > def factorial1(recurse, n): > if n < 2: > return 1 > return n * recurse(n-1) > > factorial(4) > TypeError: factorial1() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
What are you trying to do here? I miss why you don't use the usual definition of factorial. If you have a real life use case which is giving you trouble please share. I do not see why you want to pass a function to itself (?) M. Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list