[Tutor] Thoughts on little lambda

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com wrote:

> >>> from __future__ import nested_scopes
> >>> def addn(n):
> 	return lambda x:x+n
> SyntaxError: local name 'n' in 'addn' shadows use of 'n' as global in nested
> scope 'lambda' (<pyshell#3>, line 1)
> >>> 
> 
> Fiddlesticks. Off to d/l 2.2 :-)

Yikes:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-June/046708.html
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-June/046712.html

and:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2002-January/000818.html
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2002-January/000819.html


Python 2.2's IDLE should resolve the problem.  Good luck!