Functionality like local static in C

[Cecil Westerhof]

In C when you declare a variable static in a function, the variable
retains its value between function calls.
The first time the function is called it has the default value (0 for
an int).
But when the function changes the value in a call (for example to 43),
the next time the function is called the variable does not have the
default value, but the value it had when the function returned.
Does python has something like that?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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