On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> Built-ins aren't quite the same as globals, but essentially yes: > > Sure. That might explain some of the weirdness, but it doesn't explain > why things were still weird with the variable named posttype. However, > since the list comp appears to work, I'm going with that... would love > to know what's going on, but at least things aren't utterly b0rked > like they were two hours ago!
What is the scope the code is running in? If this is part of a class definition, that could explain why the lambda is not seeing the type / posttype closure: because there isn't one. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
