> That's the only way of creating function with state without introducing closure or making an object with __call__ What about this? def foo(): if not

> That's the only way of creating function with state without introducing closure or making an object with __call__ What about this? def foo(): if not hasattr(foo, 'static_list'): foo.static_list = [] At least it's a bit easier to see that something funky is going on.