Closures in Python (part 1) Martin Fowler (obligitary Fowlbot namedrop) recently blogged about the power of closures in languages that support them. Here's a translation of Martin's Ruby code into Python. [Initial sentence and table structure copied from Joe Walnes] (not knowing how to get this to format correctly is my fault. I want to write a part 2, but that'll have to wait as I have other comm