http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotchas.html#contents_item_6
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:30 AM, cseja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I call > > print walk([1,2,3], []) > print walk([5,6,7]) > > I get > > [1, 2, 3] > [4, 5, 6] > > but when I call > > print walk([1,2,3]) > print walk([5,6,7]) > > I get > > [1, 2, 3] > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] > > at stdout, where > > def walk(seq, result = []): > for item in seq: > result.append(item) > return result > > Does that mean that the scope of optional arguments is global if they aren't > used and local if they are (or am I missing something here)? > > Regards, > CS > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
