>>> And what's the downside of the way I've done it? >> >> Its slow... > > Actually it is not particularly slow. The actual function code is > created once, when the module is compiled; creating a function > object and binding it to a name is pretty fast. There is a good > discussion here: > http://tinyurl.com/gzfyl >
Absolutely, I should have said its "slower", all things are relative. For this application it probably makes no difference in real terms. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor