Closures in leu of pointers?

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Well, it would have been French if I had spelled it right - since you force me overcome my laziness, I see I should have spelled it lieu ...

Thank you.  You reminded me of the (weak) workaround of using arrays and confirmed my suspicion that I although I can read the variable, I won't be able to write to it.  I still don't understand why not, though...

As for python 3 ... "nonlocal"?  I see I'm not alone in picking obnoxious names ...