Newbie: anything resembling static?

[Terry Reedy]

"Tom" <nonotreally999 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f1d59fef.0302011305.34a2836a at posting.google.com...
> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
news:<96YZ9.102138$0v.2963371 at news1.tin.it>...
> > def five():
> >     staticvar = []
> >     def innerfive():
> >         staticvar.append('x')
> >         return ''.join(staticvar)
> >     return innerfive
> > five = five()
>
> I've played around with the several options in Alex's msg and
learned
> some things I didn't know about nested scopes.  (Thanks, Alex.)  I
> also read PEP 227 (and understood many parts of it), but I still
have
> one question: after I've called the function 'five' several times,
is
> there a way to see the current value of 'staticvar' in an
interactive
> session?

To do this (without making innerfive global), you should rewrite above
as class with __call__, as I believe I posted before.

TJR