Not understanding lamdas and scoping

[Joshua Kugler]

George Sakkis wrote:

> On Mar 26, 5:02 pm, Joshua Kugler <jkug... at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to use lamdba to generate some functions, and it is not
>> working
>> the way I'd expect.  The code is below, followed by the results I'm
>> getting.  More comments below that.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> So, is there some scoping issue with lambda
>> that I'm not seeing?
> 
> Yes; it's not related to lambda though but to closures (whether
> defined as lambdas or regular functions). See for example
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/94d1bba8ad56baf4
> 
> There should be an entry for this at
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/programming/, that's really an FAQ.

George -

Thanks for the quick and clear answer...that makes perfect sense.  To
bad...I'd like to just use a list comprehension. :)

j