Terry Reedy writes: > definitions. Lambda expressions create functions just like def > statements and are not closures and do not create closure unless > nested within another function definition. Thinking otherwise is
Seems quite closed in the top level environment to me: Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 16 2009, 07:03:37) >>> k = 'outer' >>> f = lambda : k >>> def test(): ... k = 'inner' ... return f() ... >>> test() 'outer' >>> k = 'thing' >>> test() 'thing' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
