[Python-ideas] Add static variable storage in functions

Lot of programming languages have something known as static variable storage in *functions* not *classes*. Static variable storage means a variable limited to a function yet the data it points to persists until the end of the program. Well Python also kind of has that functionality. Python's default values provide the same type of functionality but it's a *hack* and also *problematic* because only mutable types that are mutated persists. Static should behave much like Python's for loop variables. This idea proposes to add a keyword (static, maybe?) that can create static variables that can persist throughout the program yet only accessible through the function they are declared and initialized in. Thanking you, With Regards