From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:47:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update lambda description to reflect nested scopes.  This was noted by
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~576
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fcf94681ed3562277a0d5c4faab226b0d69c2d79;p=python

Update lambda description to reflect nested scopes.  This was noted by
Andrew Koenig.
---

diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index dfa71fe2d8..e90c26744e 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -1535,19 +1535,17 @@ Here's a function that returns the sum of its two arguments:
 objects are required.  They are syntactically restricted to a single
 expression.  Semantically, they are just syntactic sugar for a normal
 function definition.  Like nested function definitions, lambda forms
-cannot reference variables from the containing scope, but this can be
-overcome through the judicious use of default argument values:
+can reference variables from the containing scope:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> def make_incrementor(n):
-...     return lambda x, incr=n: x+incr
+...     return lambda x: x + n
 ...
 >>> f = make_incrementor(42)
 >>> f(0)
 42
 >>> f(1)
 43
->>>
 \end{verbatim}