Leif K-Brooks enlightened us with: >> It also allows for dynamic function creation in cases where a name >> would not be available. > > What cases are those?
An example: def generate_randomizer(n, m): randomizer = def(x): return x ** n % m return randomizer Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list