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accessing a second level nested function - varsh - Aug-09-2020

def html_tag( tag ):

    def body( msg ):
        print( "hi! :", msg )

        def inn_body( msg1 ):
            print( "hola: ", msg1 )
     return inn_body

    return body
h1 = html_tag( "h1" )
h1( "varshini" )
h1( "subiksha" )

/// How do i access the inn_body()?

RE: accessing a second level nested function - Yoriz - Aug-09-2020

def html_tag(tag):

    def body(msg):
        print("hi! :", msg)

        def inn_body(msg1):
            print("hola: ", msg1)

        return inn_body

    return body


h1 = html_tag("h1")
h1("varshini")
h1("subiksha")('inn_body')

Output:hi! : varshini
hi! : subiksha
hola:  inn_body

RE: accessing a second level nested function - deanhystad - Aug-09-2020

I was going to (ok, did) ask why would you want to do such a thing. Is it to allow writing code like that used in Yoriz' example? Looks confusing to me.

RE: accessing a second level nested function - varsh - Aug-13-2020

(Aug-09-2020, 03:40 PM)deanhystad Wrote: I was going to (ok, did) ask why would you want to do such a thing. Is it to allow writing code like that used in Yoriz' example? Looks confusing to me.

No, I was getting a hang of closures concept in python and I wanted to know on how to access a nested fuction using the closure method.