Help! Have I found a serious bug? This seems like highly undesired behaviour to me. From the program below, I get output:
call1: ['sdf'] call2: ['Set within test for call2'] call3: ['Set within test for call2'] instead of what I should get, call1: ['sdf'] call2: ['Set within test for call2'] call3: ['Set within test for call3'] I'm using Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02). The code is below. #!/usr/bin/python def testPersistence(anarg,twooption=[]): #print anarg if not twooption: twooption.append('Set within test for '+anarg) print anarg +': '+str(twooption) testPersistence('call1',twooption=['sdf']); testPersistence('call2'); testPersistence('call3'); -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list