interesting bound-built-in-method technique

[Michael Hudson]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:

[snip]
 
> >>> m = {'parrot': "alive"}
> >>> f('parrot')
> 'dead'
> 
> It just removes the mutable object reference from the namespace, presumably
> meaning you can't change it any more. Neat. But will the reference to its
> method be enough to stop Python from garbage collecting it [I have to
> believe the answer is 'yes'].

Yes.

Cheers,
M.

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