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zo1 on Aug 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intell...

Have you had a look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html#functools.p... ?

Anywho, do you have a genuine example of where a closure is helpful for you in python? I'm very curious.

Retra on Aug 8, 2015 [–]

I don't understand the question. Your link has examples of closures right in it, so naturally if you're doing anything like that, you'll want them.

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