What is "lambda x=x : ... " ?

[Mike Meyer]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:59:23 +0100 Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> What does "y=y" and "c=c" mean in the lambda function?
> > 
> > Older versions of python didn't make variables in an outer scope
> > visible in the inner scope. This was the standard idiom to work
> > around that.
> lexically scoped free variables and object binding are two different 
> things, and have different semantics.  the former does not always 
> replace the latter.

And?

	<mike

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