kj wrote: > I'm a Perlhead (there, I said it). Years ago I made a genuine > attempt to learn Python, but my intense disappointed with the way > Python deals with scopes ultimately sapped my enthusiasm. I couldn't > live without closures and without the fine control over scopes that > Perl provides.
Python has supported nested (lexical) scopes and closures since version 2.1, maybe this gives you enough control; see http://www.amk.ca/python/2.1/index.html#SECTION000300000000000000000 Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list