Advanced Functions

First class functions, higher order functions, nested functions and closures.

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First-Class and Higher-Order Functions

Functions in Python are ordinary objects. They can be stored, passed, returned and built at runtime, and that fact underlies sorting keys, decorators...

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Nested Functions and Closures

A closure is an inner function that keeps hold of variables from the function that created it, long after that function has returned.