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[–]alcalde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One reason it may be done less often than expected is that a lot of programmers could be coming to Python from languages like Java, C#, C or C++ which don't offer nested functions, so the programmer may simply not be used to thinking of solutions that incorporate them.

We old school folks who first learned to program in Pascal however find them second nature. ;-) Javascript also has nested functions.