Hi all,
I am new to programming and python and had a question. I hope I
articulate this well enough so here it goes... I was following along
on a thread on this mailing list discussing how to test file I/O
operations. In one of the suggested solutions the following code was
used:
def _open_as_stringio(self, filename):
filelike = StringIO(self.filecontents[filename])
real_close = filelike.close
def wrapped_close():
self.filecontents[filename] = filelike.getvalue()
real_close()
filelike.close = wrapped_close
return filelike
In trying to understand the logic behind the code for my own
edification, I was wondering what is the reasoning of defining a
function in side another function (for lack of a better phrase)?
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