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

No, you can't do this.

Also, it's a terrible, terrible idea. "Store to a function" is such an awful and wrong thing to do that I hesitate to provide working code.

Use a callable object.

class Store( object ):
    def __init__( self ):
        self.x, self.y, self.z = None, None, None
    def __call__( self, x=None, y=None, z=None ):
        if x is None and y is None and z is None:
            return self.x, self.y, self.z
        else:
            self.x, self.y, self.z = x, y, z

What's better is to do something simpler that doesn't involve a function with magical properties that does two different things when called with and without arguments.

Anything is better than "store to a function". Anything.

Really.

Anything.