Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: >> On 05/08/11 09:20, Eric Snow wrote: >>> Object available during code object execution: >>> (M) no >>> (C) no >>> (F) no >> (F) yes. >> >> cf. recursion. > > Is it? As I understand it, a Python function is not able to reference > "itself" but must reference its own name.
That is correct. Recursion in Python is implemented simply by name lookup. > This means that assigning > that function to something else stops it being recursive: An easier way to demonstrate the process: >>> def f(x): ... print x ... if x > 0: f(x-1) ... >>> f(3) 3 2 1 0 >>> g = f >>> del f >>> g(3) 3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 3, in f NameError: global name 'f' is not defined -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
