George Sakkis wrote: > It shouldn't come as a surprise if it turns out to be slower, since the > nested function is redefined every time the outer is called.
except that it isn't, really: all that happens is that a new function object is created from prebuilt parts, and assigned to a local variable. it's not slower than, say, a method call. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
