Closures in leu of pointers?

[cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com]

Alas, one reason it's a weak workaround is that it doesn't work - at least, not how I wish it would:


$ cat ptrs

x = 34

def p1 (a1):

    a1[0] += 12
    
p1 ([x])

print (x)

$ python ptrs
34