[Tutor] remarkable features of Python

[Pijus Virketis]

Hi all, 

Today Slashdot posted a long and interesting interview
(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1726251&mode=nested) with Kent
M. Pitman, expert on Lisp/Scheme. One of the questions compared Lisp to
Python (pretty favourably, in fact :)): "Some of the Lisp-ish features in
Python that spring right to mind are functions as objects, closures,
garbage collection, and dynamic-yet-strong typing." Can someone who has a
deeper understanding of Python briefly explain how it implements these
things (give a little example?) for those of us, who have not taken a lot
of hard-core CS.

Thanks!

Pijus

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