> Kristian Benoit wrote: > > This means one cant parse multiple files at the same time using the same > > handlers. You cant pass the context current context to the handler, you must > > base your code on global variables which is not so nice. > "Martin v. Löwis" replied: > This is not true. You can create multiple parsers, and then can make the > callback functions bound methods, using self to store parse-specific > data. There is no need to have extra callback data.
What he said. Kristian's complaint is probably a common misconception about Python -- not too many languages have unified the concepts of "bound methods" and "callables" so completely as Python. Every callable is in a sense a closure (or can be). Nested functions are other examples. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
