Confused about closures and scoping rules

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:07:47 -0700, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
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>This struck me as counterintuitive, but I couldn't find anything in the
>official docs indicating what the expected behavior should be. Any
>feedback/enlightenment would be welcome.  This problem appeared deep inside a
>complicated code and it took me almost two days to track down what was going
>on...

Lots of people ask about this.  The behavior you observed is the expected
(by the implementors, anyway) behavior.

Jean-Paul