> Then this is a feature, not a bug. > Both in terms of enhancing one's understanding of python's memory model... In much the same way as having your company

> Then this is a feature, not a bug. > Both in terms of enhancing one's understanding of python's memory model... In much the same way as having your company bricked by a buffer-overflow ransomware attack does in the C world? I'm not a big fan of elucidation by gotcha. > [...and] for introducing static/persistent variables to a function (without the need for global declarations) Except when you are at risk of someone calling with their own variable(s) that do not have the static-singleton semantics that the default would have.