Tom Clarke <t.cla...@ic.ac.uk> added the comment: NB - (discussion of significance of this bug)
Defaultdict called with no argument is anomalous & this problem can be avoided in such cases by using dict. However this is not possible if default value can change and the documentation specifically defines behavior when called with no parameter, so this case is allowed. Furthermore this bug is unpleasant because when the default values are never used it is very counterintuitive to imagine that the an error in the default value function could have any effect on the output. Possible solutions: (1) raise error in this case, change documentation (I prefer) (2) mend behaviour in this case Best wishes, Tom ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6637> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
