Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2007-10-29, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >>> Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> Given the following: >>>> def outer(arg) >>>> avar = '' >>>> def inner1(arg2) >>>> # How can I set 'avar' here ? >>> I don't think you can, until Python 3: >>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/ >> But it definitely does work in Python 3 if you use 'nonlocal':: >> >> Python 3.0a1+ (py3k:58681, Oct 26 2007, 19:44:30) [MSC v.1310 32 bit >> (Intel)] on win32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more >> information. >> >>> def f(): >> ... x = 1 >> ... def g(): >> ... nonlocal x >> ... x = 2 >> ... print(x) >> ... g() >> ... print(x) >> ... >> >>> f() >> 1 >> 2 >> >> That said, I'd like to see the reason you think you want to do >> this. > > It's allows a standard programming idiom which provides a > primitive form of object oriented programming using closures to > represent state.
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. ;-) STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
