Lexical scope: converting Perl to Python

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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:02:53 -0700, Andrew Savige wrote:
> Notice that this code uses Perl's lexical scope to hide the
> %private_hash variable, but not the public_fn() function.

You might try:

def  public_fn(param):
	private_hash = publicfn.private_hash
	return private_hash[param]

public_fn.private_hash = {'A':42, 'B':69}

(You don't have to assign public_fn.private_hash to a local variable, but 
you might want to, to avoid extra typing, if you refer to private_hash 
more than a couple of times in the function).