Python newbie needs constructive suggestions

[David G. Wonnacott]

Many thanks to those of you who responded to my question about
anonymous functions with local variables, filling me in on

  e) do something else clever and Pythonic that I don't know about yet?

by pointing out that I can use (among other good things) lambda with
default arguments. That should suit my immediate needs well, since I
don't need to maintain state (or avoid maintaning state); I may also
look into closures (possibly anonymous ones?) and callable classes if
I need to go beyond this. And, of course, if the code is complex
enough, then one should give up the anonymous function and name it.

Rest assured that I will _not_ be attempting to write "let" in Python
and use it.

It looks like Python may be every much as big an improvement over C++
as I had hoped.

Dave Wonnacott