I've spent the last... couple hours, I guess, trying to hack around the lack of function closures, and I came up with this, which might help:
common_data = ...stuff...
def process(record):
...logic...
def op():
for fing in op.func_dict: # Key line number 1
exec(fing + " = op.func_dict[fing]") # Key line number 2
while common_data.still_recieving:
with common_data._lock:
if common_data.record_available:
process(common_data.oldest_record)
time.sleep(1.0)
op.func_dict.update(locals()) # Key line number 3
threading.Thread(target = op).start()
...
It's a pretty heavy handed / contrived example, but if there are a lot of locals or you're still in the process of prototyping this pattern becomes useful. Mostly I was just bitter about all the data stores being replicated or moved in order to handle callback delegates, etc.
