Xavier Ho wrote:
G'day Pythoneers,I ran into a strange problem today: why does Python not allow default paranmeters for packed arguments in a function def?>> def test(a = 1, b = (2, 3)):... print a, b...>> test()1 (2, 3)>> def t(a, *b = (3, 4)):File "<input>", line 1 def t(a, *b = (3, 4)): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax What was the rationale behind this design?
Perhaps it was that no-one ever thought of doing that! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
