Fernando Perez wrote: > Yes, I knew of the new.function() approach, but the problem is that I don't > know > how to make a fresh closure for it. I can reuse the closure from a different > function, but the docs don't say how to make a valid closure tuple.
>>> def makeclosure(x): ... def _f(): ... x ... return _f.func_closure ... >>> makeclosure(42) (<cell at 0x4613bc: int object at 0x4a3e4c>,) OK, that's kind of limited. God only knows what happens when there is more than one variable, although you could add extra levels of hackery to do with that. > Many thanks though, I'll probably end up using a less dirty hack :) *Excellent* idea. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list