On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.6824.1392265865.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Whether it's a module-level function, a bound method, a closure, or a >> callable object, a zero-arg function in Python always has some kind of >> implicit state. > > Sometimes, it has a *lot* of implicit state: > > os.fork()
os.fork() always returns 0, so it *clearly* has no state whatsoever. It also always returns the next available PID, which is only a small amount of extra state (from the OS). Nothing else affects its return value! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
