full closures

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hello. 

    While I know about bound methods in Python, I'm wondering if a full
closure can be implemented. Can it?

    Example: I want to pass an arbitrary code reference into a closure and
have all of its variables preserved. 

    ie. 

    print "the current count is %d" % counter; counter += 1

    Can I pass the above code into a closure, and then simply call it
repeatedly and see counter increment itself? If I pass in a function with a
local variable, that local will be reset each time, and I don't want to use a
global. 

    Thanks,

    Mike

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