Ben Finney wrote: > Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> One thing I miss as I move from REALbasic to Python is the ability >> to have static storage within a method -- i.e. storage that is >> persistent between calls > > This is precisely what classes are for: allowing functionality and > state to exist in a single object. > >> but not visible outside the method. > > Bind the state to a name with a single leading underscore (‘_foo’), > which is the convention for “not part of the public interface”. > Don't look for hard access restrictions, though, because they don't > really exist in Python. > Neither do typed variables, but that's not going to stop Joe ;-)
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