On Jan 20, 10:57 pm, Tim Northover <t.p.northo...@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Notice that there's no actual mention of num there, it's a function that > takes one parameter. If that parameter happens to be num it does what > you want, but there's no way for the interpreter to know what was > intended.
Which is why my working example explicitly passed num into the lambda, and why my variant used a closure... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
