On May 1, 9:34 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) > > Because Python has objects for when you need to associate > state with a function. > > John Nagle
Then why are functions mutable? I can understand to some extent why functions are not picklable, because the bytecode may not be the same across python implementations (is that true?), but I do not understand why copying functions is a problem. The patch that allows copy to pass-through functions just emulates pickle, but I can find no discussion or justification for not allowing functions to be copied: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/76636 Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
