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Python has nested scope, but not the ability to modify variables in outer lexical scopes (except for globals, and via reflexion). Therefore, Python doesn't have closures. It's that simple. --[[User:Lament|Lament]]
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Closures are a critically important concept in programming languages (and computer science) and definitely deserve their own separate article. They are different from [[Function object]]s, despite the fact that the two are sometimes confused.
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