python store variable in function and use it later

Question

is it possible to store a variable from a while loop to a function and then call that same variable from the function at the end of the loop

for eg:during while loop, p

Answer 1

Technically speaking, if you had a deep, burning desire to do this with functions, you can always do it with a closure (which is, as we all know, a poor man's object):

def store(a,b,c):
    def closure():
        return (a,b,c)
    return closure

stored = store(1,2,3)
print stored()

prints in (1,2,3)