Why doesn't this simple Curry-like implemention work?

[Michael R. Head]

# for some reason this function doesn't work in python 1.5.2.
def curry(f, p):
	return lambda x: apply(f, p, x)

I've looked up on the list better class-based implementations, and am
using one of them, but I'm curious why this doesn't work (when the
curried function is called, f becomes unknown). (I'm looking for a
reason in the language spec). I'm supposing that lamda isn't storing
the reference to its inputs -- which it seems it should -- is this
correct?

mike

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