[Numpy-discussion] Vectorizing a function

[Charles R Harris]

On Jan 30, 2008 10:18 AM, Timothy Hochberg <tim.hochberg@ieee.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 30, 2008 10:10 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> [SNIP]
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> >
> > IIRC, the way to do closures in Python is something like
> >
> > In [5]: def factory(x) :
> >    ...:     def f() :
> >    ...:         print x
> >    ...:     f.x = x
> >    ...:     return f
> >    ...:
> >
> > In [6]: f = factory("Hello world.")
> >
> > In [7]: f()
> > Hello world.
> >
> > There is a reason to do it that way, but I don't recall what it is.
> >
>
> You don't need the "f.x = x" line. It's possible it has some beneficial
> side effect that I don't recall, but basic closures work fine without out.
>

You're right. It looks like the context gets stored in f.func_closure.

In [14]: f.func_closure[0].cell_contents
Out[14]: 'Hello world.'

Chuck
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