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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:21:00 +1100
Subject: Re: Design thought for callbacks
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But you are using it. You might not be using it by name, but you are using
> it via the callback function. What did you expect, that Python should read
> your mind and somehow intuit that you still care about this socket
> listener, but not some other socket listener that you are done with?
>
> You don't have to bind the listener to a name. Any reference will do. You
> can dump it in a bucket:
>
> bucket_of_stuff = []
> bucket_of_stuff.append(some_function(a, b, c))
> bucket_of_stuff.append(make_web_server())
> bucket_of_stuff.append(socket(23, on_accept=client_connected))

Sure, and whether it's a name or a list-element reference doesn't
matter: it seems wrong to have to stash a thing in a bucket in order
to keep its callbacks alive. I expect the callbacks _themselves_ to
keep it alive. But I can understand the opposite POV.

ChrisA