Python Class - Functions Omnibus

Details
Noisebridge PyClass will be covering Functions this week. This is the fifth of six lessons in our Winter 2016 Curriculum.
Functions Omnibus - A bag of tricks regarding namespace/scope, code blocks, argument un/packing, lambdas (anonymous function), closures, and maybe more.
Please note this is an intermediate class, for beginner help, please see the wiki entry for the course below.
For more information please see:
Wiki Entry (https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Pyclass)
Lessons (https://github.com/PyClass/PyClassLessons/tree/master/winter2016)
Winter 2016 Syllabus:
• Week 1 - 2/1 - JSON & File Manipulation
• Week 2 - 2/9 - String Extraction and Processing
• Week 3 - 2/16 - The Phone Book Search Algorithm
• Break Week - 2/22 - No Class
• Week 4 - 2/29 - Storing data with sqlite databases
• Week 5 - 3/7 - Functions Omnibus
• Week 6 - 3/14 - Flask Basics / what is a web application?

Python Class - Functions Omnibus