Creating functions in a loop

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You’re running into a problem with late binding — each function looks up i as late as possible (thus, when called after the end of the loop, i will be set to 2).

Easily fixed by forcing early binding: change def f(): to def f(i=i): like this:

def f(i=i):
    return i

Default values (the right-hand i in i=i is a default value for argument name i, which is the left-hand i in i=i) are looked up at def time, not at call time, so essentially they’re a way to specifically looking for early binding.

If you’re worried about f getting an extra argument (and thus potentially being called erroneously), there’s a more sophisticated way which involved using a closure as a “function factory”:

def make_f(i):
    def f():
        return i
    return f

and in your loop use f = make_f(i) instead of the def statement.

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