This link seems to be about Closures in Python, but I am not feeling sharp enough at the moment to evaluate the correctness of the discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language#Closures As others have said, you might get more useful responses if you can elaborate upon what exactly you worry are shortcomings of Python compared to Perl. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
