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How do closures capture variables in Python?

Q: How do closures capture variables in Python?

When an inner function references a variable from an enclosing function, Python keeps that variable alive in a **cell object** shared between the two functions — the closure captures the variable **by reference**, not its value at definition time: outer() defines count inner() uses count <rect class='d-box-accent' x='300

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