access to the namespace of a function from within its invocation

[John Nagle]

Poor Yorick wrote:
> In the example below, the attribute "data" is added to a function 
> object.  

    There are these things called "classes" which might be useful
in this situation.

    Python has some gratitious semantics that come with implementations
in which everything is a dictionary.  Don't get carried away.

				John Nagle