Gregory Ewing <[email protected]>:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> At least some of the methods of inner classes are closures (or there
>> would be no point to an inner class).
>
> In Python there is no such thing as an "inner class" in the Java
> sense. You can nest class statements, but that just gives you
> a class that happens to be an attribute of another class.
> Nothing in the nested class has any special access to anything
> in the containing class.
Lexically, there is special access:
class C:
def __init__(self, some, arg):
c = self
class D:
def method(self):
access(c)
access(some)
access(arg)
IOW, inner class D is a container for a group of interlinked closure
functions.
Marko
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