"Kaz Kylheku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Let me make the observation that name of an inner function is, alone, > insufficient to identify that function in a debugging scenario. If you > have some inner function called I, defined within function F, you need > to know that it's the I inside F, and not some other I. > > Look at what happens with: > >>>> def err(): > ... def inner(): > ... return nonexistent > ... return inner > ... >>>> err() > <function inner at 0x8177304> >>>> err()() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "<stdin>", line 3, in inner > NameError: global name 'nonexistent' is not defined
So name it err_inner. Or _err. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
