Steven D'Aprano wrote: > "Each def or lambda expression that is executed will create a closure if > the body of the function or any contained function has free variables." > > Presumably that means that if there are no free variables, no closure > is created.
you're quoting selectively; the word "closure" isn't used anywhere in the design document except for a section that talks about "flat closures", which is an implementation approach used in CPython (as the sentence before the one you quoted explains). I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to treat a reference to an algorithm and an attribute on an object in a specific implementation as the definition of an computer term... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
