On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > But you are using it. You might not be using it by name, but you are using > it via the callback function. What did you expect, that Python should read > your mind and somehow intuit that you still care about this socket > listener, but not some other socket listener that you are done with? > > You don't have to bind the listener to a name. Any reference will do. You > can dump it in a bucket: > > bucket_of_stuff = [] > bucket_of_stuff.append(some_function(a, b, c)) > bucket_of_stuff.append(make_web_server()) > bucket_of_stuff.append(socket(23, on_accept=client_connected))
Sure, and whether it's a name or a list-element reference doesn't matter: it seems wrong to have to stash a thing in a bucket in order to keep its callbacks alive. I expect the callbacks _themselves_ to keep it alive. But I can understand the opposite POV. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
