On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > It seems to me that early binding is less flexible than late, because > with late binding you have a chance to simulate early binding by saving a > reference of the variable elsewhere, such as in a default value, or an > instance attribute. But with early binding, you're stuck. There's no > simple or straightforward way to simulate late binding in an early > binding language.
Well, you can always do something like this: >>> a = box(42) >>> func = lambda x: a.value + x >>> func(1) 43 >>> a.value = 6 * 9 >>> func(1) 55 I realize that's not exactly the same thing since you're stuck working with "a.value" instead of just "a", but it does produce the desired result. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
