I'm surprised nobody beat me to posting this: >>> def foo(stuff=[]): ... stuff.append('bar') ... print stuff ... >>> foo() ['bar'] >>> foo() ['bar', 'bar'] >>> foo() ['bar', 'bar', 'bar']
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. > If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please > share. > > (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). > > Thanks, > -- > Miki > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list