Joel's explanation is _much_ better than mine.  :)

On Saturday 22 March 2003 03:57 pm, Martin Weber wrote:
> 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

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