Why functional Python matters

[Steve Holden]

"Dave Benjamin" <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote in message
news:slrnb9pt59.iin.ramen at lackingtalent.com...
> In article <b7iigt$1d3jt$1 at ID-169208.news.dfncis.de>,
> Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote:
> > There isn't any widely understood name for what Python used
> > to do, because no other language has ever been quirky
> > enough to do it that way. It was lexical, but with only
> > three levels visible at any one time.
>
> Three? I thought it was two! Locals, globals, and...?
>

... builtin

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