function with a state

[Patrick Useldinger]

Xah Lee wrote:

> globe=0;
> def myFun():
>   globe=globe+1
>   return globe

The short answer is to use the global statement:

globe=0
def myFun():
   global globe
   globe=globe+1
   return globe

more elegant is:

globe=0
globe=myfun(globe)
def myFun(var):
   return var+1

and still more elegant is using classes and class attributes instead of 
global variables.

-pu