Cell objects and their values

[Robert Brewer]

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)().

Danke.


Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
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