Am Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:35:14 -0700 (PDT) schrieb joblack <tobias.ko...@gmail.com>:
> Let's say I've got a function with > > def doesSomething(A='bla'): > ... > > and I try to call it with a non existent variable with > > doesSomething(DoesNotExist) > > What will happen? Will it throw an exception or will it take the > defautl value? The interpreter is omniscient, just ask him: Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 29 2010, 12:36:23) [GCC 4.4.5 20100824 (prerelease)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def doesSomething(A='bla'): ... pass ... >>> doesSomething(DoesNotExist) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'DoesNotExist' is not defined -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
