Function to avoid a global variable

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 27/04/20 om 18:39 schreef Bob van der Poel:
> Thanks Chris!
> 
> At least my code isn't (quite!) as bad as the xkcd example :)
> 
> Guess my "concern" is using the initialized array in the function:
> 
>     def myfunct(a, b, c=array[0,1,2,3] )
> 
> always feels like an abuse.
> 
> Has anyone seriously considered implementing  a true static variable in a
> function? Is there a PEP?

You can emulate a static variable is with a closure.

def make_parseStack():

     depth = 0

     def parseStack(inc):
        nonlocal depth

         if depth > 50:
             ... report error and die nicely
         depth += inc

     return parseStack

parseStack = make_parseStack()

-- 
Antoon Pardon.