"David Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But the default values of function parameters seem rather like a static > attributes of a class. > Is that a good way to think of them?
If you think of a function as defining a subclass of execution instances, with __init__ inherited from the superclass, then that is a possible way to think of them. Goodness depends on your meaning of goodness ;-). Does it help you write and use Python functions acurately? > If so, are they somehow accessible? > How? Under what name? This is implementation specific. For CPython, the interactive interpreter is your friend. Learn to use it! >>> def f(): pass ... >>> dir(f) ['__call__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__get__', '__ge tattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__name__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__r epr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 'func_closure', 'func_code', 'func_defaults', 'func_dict', 'func_doc', 'func_globals', 'func_name'] Now give f some parameters with defaults and print f.func_defaults. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
