Closures

[Robert Kern]

Michael Sparks wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>class Closure:
>>    def __init__(self):
>>        self.__dict__ = sys._getframe().f_back.f_locals
> 
> 
> Out of interest how portable is this? Strikes me as extremely useful
> class to have lying around :) The only thing that makes me wonder is the
> access to _getframe...

Well, Guido considers "anything that uses sys._getframe() to be a danger 
to society unless proven innocent," but what does he know? ;-)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/58837

> Michael

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