[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Evaluation of default values seems to have nothing to do with the case > I described.
It does. Please *read* the faq: http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects > The default values are both tags = {}, and still inside mysearch() I > sometimes get some value from previous call inside tags, when the tags > keyword argument is not specified. def wtf(foo, args=[]): args.append(foo) print args wtf('???') wtf('???') wtf('???') You didn't post the actual code for mysearch(), but chances are your code is modifying it !-) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
