On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:52:46AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote: > (...) > But in Python, the inner function only has access to the _object_, not > to the original variable which refers to the object, and so you have to > "box" the value inside an object if you want to have shared references. > (.. ugliness ..) > I think this is what is meant when people say Python does not have closures. Yikes. thanks for the clarification... been on the road so much with lisp/scheme/ruby that I implied if you have access to the value, you'd _of course_ have access to the binding, too :) -Martin