On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Shrutarshi Basu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At least that's what we want to do. This whole thing is inside a > function. However, when we call that function again to create another > Gen object, the new object seems to retain the dbase dictionary from > the last time, even though we used del and then made a new object. Is > there something about Python's object model that we're missing? > Thanks for your help, It's hard to tell without seeing some code but it sounds like some version of this: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects.htm Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor