On 10/21/2010 2:51 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Sean Choi<gne...@gmail.com> wrote:
I found two similar questions in the mailing list, but I didn't understand
the explanations.
I ran this code on Ubuntu 10.04 with Python 2.6.5.
Why do the functions g and gggg behave differently? If calls gggg(3) and
g(3) both exit their functions in the same state, why do they not enter in
the same state when I call gggg(4) and g(4)?
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- my
code:
def gggg(a, L=[]):
This is a common newbie stumbling-block: Don't use lists (or anything
mutable) as default argument values
That really should be an error.
John Nagle
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