On 31 August 2011 17:45, Travis Parks <jehugalea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was a little disappointed the other day when I realized that > closures were read-only. I like to use closures quite a bit. > > Can someone explain why this limitation exists? Secondly, since I can > cheat by wrapping the thing being closure-ified, how can I write a > simple wrapper that has all the same members as the thing (decorator), > that then applies them to the underlying thing?
I don't understand. Can you give an example? > I also like partial function application. What is the easiest way of > achieving this in Python? Would it look something like this: > > def foo(x, y): > return x + y > > xFoo = lambda y: foo(10, y) from functools import partial foo10 = partial(foo, 10) HTH Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list