Alex alex at somewhere.round.here
Wed Mar 15 11:44:17 EST 2000

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>    a = filter(lambda x, y=y: x<y, xList)
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> However, you cannot have the function to modify such variables (that
> is, the value they have outside lambda).

Except for in-place modification of the object they refer to:

>>> l = []
>>> (lambda l=l: l.append (1)) ()
>>> l
[1]

Alex.

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