On 25 September 2012 23:09, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also I think lambda functions might be able to keep the frame alive. Are > > they by any chance being created in a function that is called in a loop? > > I'm pretty sure they don't. Closures don't keep a reference to the > calling frame, only to the appropriate cellvars. >
OK, that's good to know. > > Also note that whether a function is a closure has nothing to do with > whether it was defined by a lambda or a def statement. In fact, > there's no difference between functions created by one vs. the other, > except that one has an interesting __name__ and the other does not. > :-) That's true but in my experience most lambda functions are defined inside another function, whereas most ordinary functions are not. Also when creating a closure with an ordinary function it's very clear what you are doing (which is why I don't use lambda functions for this) so I think it's a little easier to accidentally create a closure with a lambda function. Oscar
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