Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflect

the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
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Fred Drake 2001-06-05 02:17:02 +00:00
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@ -869,17 +869,31 @@ that functions created with lambda forms cannot contain statements.
\indexii{lambda}{form}
\indexii{anonmymous}{function}
\strong{Programmer's note:} a lambda form defined inside a function
has no access to names defined in the function's namespace. This is
because Python has only two scopes: local and global. A common
work-around is to use default argument values to pass selected
variables into the lambda's namespace, e.g.:
\strong{Programmer's note:} Prior to Python 2.1, a lambda form defined
inside a function has no access to names defined in the function's
namespace. This is because Python had only two scopes: local and
global. A common work-around was to use default argument values to
pass selected variables into the lambda's namespace, e.g.:
\begin{verbatim}
def make_incrementor(increment):
return lambda x, n=increment: x+n
\end{verbatim}
As of Python 2.1, nested scopes were introduced, and this work-around
has not been necessary. Python 2.1 supports nested scopes in modules
which include the statement \samp{from __future__ import
nested_scopes}, and more recent versions of Python enable nested
scopes by default. This version works starting with Python 2.1:
\begin{verbatim}
from __future__ import nested_scopes
def make_incrementor(increment):
return lambda x: x+increment
\end{verbatim}
\section{Expression lists\label{exprlists}}
\indexii{expression}{list}