Python 2.x gotchas and landmines

Question

The purpose of my question is to strengthen my knowledge base with Python and get a better picture of it, which includes knowing its faults and surprises. To keep things sp

Answer 1

Loops and lambdas (or any closure, really): variables are bound by name

funcs = []
for x in range(5):
  funcs.append(lambda: x)

[f() for f in funcs]
# output:
# 4 4 4 4 4

A work around is either creating a separate function or passing the args by name:

funcs = []
for x in range(5):
  funcs.append(lambda x=x: x)
[f() for f in funcs]
# output:
# 0 1 2 3 4