Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> At least some of the methods of inner classes are closures (or there >> would be no point to an inner class). > > In Python there is no such thing as an "inner class" in the Java > sense. You can nest class statements, but that just gives you > a class that happens to be an attribute of another class. > Nothing in the nested class has any special access to anything > in the containing class.
Lexically, there is special access: class C: def __init__(self, some, arg): c = self class D: def method(self): access(c) access(some) access(arg) IOW, inner class D is a container for a group of interlinked closure functions. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list