Newbie: anything resembling static?

[Mongryong]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:05, Tom wrote:
> 
> > def five():
> >     staticvar = []
> >     def innerfive():
> >         staticvar.append('x')
> >         return ''.join(staticvar)
> >     return innerfive
> > five = five()
> 
> 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?
> 
def outer():
	static = []
	def inner():
		static.append('x')
		return ''.join(static)
	return inner, static

>>> f, s = outer()
>>> f()
'x'
>>> f()
'xx'
>>> s
['x', 'x']