passed extra info to repl function

[Marc Christiansen]

Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

>   I'm using Python 1.5.2, so I can't use nested scopes to get around this.
> I'd like replace to be able to access an instance variable of
> self.replacement_dict, so that all replacement dictionaries are unique to
> the class instance, but the scoping rules prevent replace from seeing the
> self reference. 

Use a default argument, i.e.
change
        def replace(match):
to
        def replace(match, replacement_dict=self.replacement_dict):

(untested)

Then the global replacement_dict is not needed anymore.

HTH
  Marc