Naming higher order functions

[Achim Domma]

Hi,

this looks interesting to me, but seems not to work with Python 2.1. Should
it ? If yes, could somebody explain to me why it works ? ;-)

greetings
Achim

"Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in message
news:kuelk63747.fsf at lasipalatsi.fi...
> hello,
>
> what would be a good name for the following function?
>
> def name_me(n):
>     def g(x):
>         return x[n]
>     return g
>
> "make_nth_getter" came to mind but it doesn't sound that good to me.
>
>   -- erno