"Late-binding" isn't the issue with closures on a loop
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Locate the guide passage that explains closures in a loop and compare its wording with the linked Lua example and the nested-function example in the issue. Done means the explanation distinguishes late binding from block scope and accurately describes the Python behavior.
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Description
Lua also has late-binding closures, as can be seen here: https://repl.it/repls/HotpinkEagerQuery (the first one intentionally misused to highlight the difference between block scope and function scope)
It just also has block scope. That's the thing python doesn't have, thus causing the confusion.
Block scope is better emulated with nested functions, such as:
for i in range(5):
def block_scope_emulation(i):
def thing(x):
return x*i
block_scope_emulation(i)
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