Another dumb scope question for a closure.

[Ben Fisher]

One way to get this to work is:

def inc(jj):
	def dummy(jj = jj):
		jj = jj + 1
		return jj
	return dummy

h = inc(33)
print h()

It's not very pretty though, especially when you have many variables
you want to have in the inner scope.

-Ben

On 1/9/08, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:47:30 -0500 (EST) "Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>
> > So sorry because I know I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> > 574 > cat c2.py
> > #! /usr/local/bin/python2.4
> >
> > def inc(jj):
> >      def dummy():
> >          jj = jj + 1
> >          return jj
> >      return dummy
> >
> > h = inc(33)
> > print 'h() = ', h()
> > 575 > c2.py
> > h() =
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "./c2.py", line 10, in ?
> >      print 'h() = ', h()
> >    File "./c2.py", line 5, in dummy
> >      jj = jj + 1
> > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'jj' referenced before assignment
> >
> > I could have sworn I was allowed to do this. How do I fix it?
>
> Nope. This is one of the things that makes lisper's complain that
> Python doesn't have "real closures": you can't rebind names outside
> your own scope (except via global, which won't work here).
>
> Using a class is the canonical way to hold state. However, any of the
> standard hacks for working around binding issues work. For instance:
>
> >>> def inc(jj):
> ...   def dummy():
> ...     box[0] = box[0] + 1
> ...     return box[0]
> ...   box = [jj]
> ...   return dummy
> ...
> >>> h = inc(33)
> >>> h()
> 34
>
>        <mike
>
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