Cell objects and their values

[Michael Hudson]

"Robert Brewer" <fumanchu at amor.org> writes:

> Jeff Epler wrote:
> > This seems to work, but it's undocumented (specifically, 
> > func_closure as
> > an argument to new.function is undocumented) and makes my tummy feel
> > funny when I think about it.
> > 
> > >>> import new
> > >>> def cell_get(cell):
> > ...    def f(): return cell
> > ...    return new.function(f.func_code, {}, "f", (), (cell,))()
> > ...    
> 
> Rock. On.
> 
> That is frickin' brilliant in at least three ways I never would have
> thought of. :) Thanks! Looking back over Raymond's bytecode hack in PEP
> 329, I notice he also used func_closure as an arg to function(). In
> addition, he avoided importing the "new" module by just calling
> type(f)().

That wouldn't work in Python 2.2, I don't know what Jeff is using
these days...

Cheers,
mwh

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