Jonas Nilsson wrote: > Lets say that I want to feed an optional list to class constructor: > > class Family(): > def __init__(self, fName, members = []):
> Why on earth is the output ['Bill', 'Joe']!? Is there a simple > solution that separates f1 and f2 without forcing me to write code for > the special case when you don't feed members to the __init__()-function? Congrats; you just encountered a very popular new trap ;) The most recent explanation is only one day old: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-August/1252316.html Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
