static keyword

[Nick Jacobson]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<WeKdnUQ3hq4BKwzdRVn-hg at powergate.ca>...
> Nick Jacobson wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that is excellent.  Thank you very much. :)
> > 
> > The good news: you can reset all your "static" data whenever you want,
> > by calling foo().  Can't do that in C.
> > 
> > The bad news: I just hope I don't forget and call foo() instead of
> > g.next().
> > I would rather the command foo() by default call the next iteration,
> > and, say, foo().reset() would recall the function from scratch.  But
> > that's neither here nor there..
> 
> Do this then (and this is, if not a hack, at least unusual style):
> 
> >>>def foo_reset():
>       # same as previous foo was, just renamed
> 
> >>>foo = foo_reset().next
> >>>foo()
> First pass
> 11
> >>>foo()
> 12
> 
> Happy now?  ;-)
> 
> -Peter

Yes, in fact that's very clever.  Thanks! :)