Pythonic way to do static local variables?

[Michael Spencer]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Charles Krug" <cdkrug at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message 
> news:7Ujbe.647694$w62.444038 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> 
>>Both of these techniques look promising here.
> 
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> Here a third, the closure approach (obviously not directly tested):
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Just for grins, here's a fourth approach, using the descriptor protocol

  >>> def func_with_state(state,a):
  ...     state.append(a)
  ...     return state
  ...
  >>> f = func_with_state.__get__([])
  >>> f(1)
  [1]
  >>> f(2)
  [1, 2]
  >>> f(3)
  [1, 2, 3]
  >>>

Michael