skip at pobox.com wrote: > skip> Yes, but an int is both much smaller than a function and can't be > skip> involved in cyclic garbage. >> I also forgot to mention that inexperienced users will probably find it > easier to hang onto an int than create a closure a) functools.partial isn't that hard to use b) we could create it automatically in atexit.register and return it Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org