Newbie: anything resembling static?

[Erik Max Francis]

anton wilson wrote:

> Is there any way of imitating "static" C function variables without
> having to
> define the variable as a global? I just want persistent function
> variables
> but i want them to be local to the function namespace. :S

Not explicitly.  You can use a global but prefix it with an underscore
(a convention in Python that says "hands off").  You could also include
an additional argument with a (mutable) default value which you don't
mention in your API and use it that way, but I personally would
discourage that idiom for this usage since I find it to be a little
unclear.

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