I have seen and used nested functions in Python, and they match the definition of a closure. So why are they called nested functions
instead of closures<
def nested1(num1):
print "nested1 has",num1
def nested2(num2):
print "nested2 has",num2,"and it can reach to",num1
return num1+num2 #num1 referenced for reading here
return nested2
Gives:
In [17]: my_func=nested1(8)
nested1 has 8
In [21]: my_func(5)
nested2 has 5 and it can reach to 8
Out[21]: 13
This is an example of what a closure is and how it can be used.