Yes exactly. datetime.datetime.now() would call the function and
datetime.datetime.now would pass the function. So it would be nice to have a
way to pass a deferred call.
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Ok my thoughts was that python is such an elegant language, a process that
could add a non static value (a callable or generator for example) to a
function's default parameter would add more elegance to the default handling.
what a decorator and a helper function do is to double the amount of fu
S.O post was this one.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50653182/can-a-lambda-or-other-method-be-used-as-a-default-parameter-in-python
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I should add to this (as I cant edit my post) that please note it is not a
constant we are adding. Its a value that will change each time you call the
function. It could be a GUID or rand number too. In this case its the current
time.
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I have had a long standing unanswered question on on stackoverflow: is it
possible to pass a function to a default parameter so that you could do in
essence things like this.
def time_diff(target_time, curr_time= lambda : datetime.now() ):
return curr_time - target_time
this would be an s
