I encountered this piece of python code (pasted below) on effbot and I was wondering:
Why defining a function within a function?
import re, htmlentitydefs
##
# Removes HTML or XML character references and entities from a text string.
#
# @param text The HTML (or XML) source text.
# @return The plain text, as a Unicode string, if necessary.
def unescape(text):
def fixup(m):
text = m.group(0)
if text[:2] == "":
# character reference
try:
if text[:3] == "":
return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
else:
return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
except ValueError:
pass
else:
# named entity
try:
text = unichr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[text[1:-1]])
except KeyError:
pass
return text # leave as is
return re.sub("(?s)<[^>]*>|?\w+;", fixup, text)
解决方案Why defining a function within a function?
To keep it isolated. It's only used in this one place. Why define it more globally when it's used locally?