Lexical scope: converting Perl to Python

[Rhodri James]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:02:53 +0100, Andrew Savige <ajsavige at yahoo.com.au>  
wrote:

> What is the Pythonic equivalent of Perl's lexical scope, as
> illustrated by the code snippet above?

The useful (to you) pythonic answer depends rather a lot on
why you want to do something like that.  While you've been
given several possibilities, the "correct" answer might well
be "don't do that at all" :-)

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