Mike Meyer wrote: >> What does "y=y" and "c=c" mean in the lambda function? > > Older versions of python didn't make variables in an outer scope > visible in the inner scope. This was the standard idiom to work > around that.
lexically scoped free variables and object binding are two different things, and have different semantics. the former does not always replace the latter. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
