[Python-ideas] Tweaking closures and lexical scoping to include the function being defined

[Carl Matthew Johnson]

On Sep 29, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Ron Adam wrote:

>   @set_closure(x=0)
>   def adder(y):
>       nonlocal x
>       x += y
>       return x

Won't work as written because the nonlocal will cause an error before the decorator is applied.

The other day, I suggested we add the ability for decorators to have a __prepare__ method that creates the namespace the function being created will use, but it was shot down as impractical. It would however do what you want to do here.