static keyword

[Peter Hansen]

Nick Jacobson wrote:

> Yes, that is excellent.  Thank you very much. :)
> 
> The good news: you can reset all your "static" data whenever you want,
> by calling foo().  Can't do that in C.
> 
> The bad news: I just hope I don't forget and call foo() instead of
> g.next().
> I would rather the command foo() by default call the next iteration,
> and, say, foo().reset() would recall the function from scratch.  But
> that's neither here nor there..

Do this then (and this is, if not a hack, at least unusual style):

>>>def foo_reset():
      # same as previous foo was, just renamed

>>>foo = foo_reset().next
>>>foo()
First pass
11
>>>foo()
12

Happy now?  ;-)

-Peter