[IronPython] Hosting IronPython 2.X in .NET app

[M. David Peterson]

On 7/10/07, Jacob Lee <t-jlee at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> Closures have existed in Python since version 2.1 or so:
> def f():
>         x = 5
>         return lambda: x
> closure = f()
> print closure() # prints 5
>
> Here, the anonymous inner function returned by f is able to refer to
> variables defined in outer scopes.


Oh, nice!  This is did not know.  So then are closures available now in IP?

As for the Python 3000 question --
> The one current limitation is that you cannot rebind names defined in
> outer scopes.


To me that's a feature, not a limitation. ;-)

That is, the following code does not work as expected:
>
> def f():
>         x = 5
>         def g():
>                 x = 7 # x is local to g here
>
> You could use the "global" statement to indicate that x is a global
> despite it being assigned to inside the function, but there was no
> equivalent way to indicate that x refers to a variable in an outer, but
> non-global, scope. Python 3000 will introduce the "nonlocal" statement that
> works like the global statement to fill this gap. As usual, the best source
> is the relevant PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/
>
> Hope this helps.


It does.  Thanks!

-- 
/M:D

M. David Peterson
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