[Tutor] C-like local static var in Py ?

[Yann Le Du]

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> >You can reset this by setting v=[0] outside of that function.
> 
> No; that does not work. This creates a global variable v that is 
> independent of the one in inc. However this will work:
> 
> v2 = [0]
> def inc(v = v2):
> # rest the same

Yes, you're right ! I went too fast... I thought I had understood, and had 
not.

> 
> You can then reset things by resetting v2[0]. Note that if you set v2 = 0 
> you create a new list assigned to v2; the original list still remains 
> associated with the function default.

Yes, amazing : v2[0]=0 is not the same as v2=[0].

> If one adds print id(v) to inc one sees, as expected, the same number 
> (address of the object) each time. Is there some way in Python, given such 
> an id, to access the object at that address?

I have no idea...

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