static variables

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 08:15 pm, Grobu wrote:

> Perhaps you could use a parameter's default value to implement your
> static variable?
> 
> Like :
> # -------------------------------------------------
>  >>> def test(arg=[0]):
> ...     print arg[0]
> ...     arg[0] += 1
> ...


Awesome!

I'm not being sarcastic, I'm serious. Thank you Grobu, for demonstrating the
existence of something we debated a few days ago.

In another *painfully* long thread about mutable default arguments, I
suggested the same idea: using a mutable default as static storage. It is
very gratifying to see that other people have independently come up with
the same idea.




-- 
Steven