On 2008-01-20, citizen Arnaud Delobelle testified: > On Jan 20, 3:39 pm, Bart Ogryczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > to.invalid> wrote: >> On 2008-01-18, citizen Zbigniew Braniecki testified: >> >> > It's really a nice pitfall, I can hardly imagine anyone expecting this, >> >> AFAIR, it's described in Diving Into Python. > > Still there seems to be about one message a week about this. Indeed I > reckon the greatest benefit of early binding of default function > arguments is that it attracts lots of new people to comp.lang.python.
Generally there's lot of confusion about assigments of objects. I guess, there are lot of ppl, who started with languages like PHP, where $a = $b, translates to Python's a = copy(b). >> It's quiet elegant way of creating cache. > > IMHO, calling it 'elegant' is pushing it too far! Ok, maybe that's not a good choice of word. Not elegant, minimalist. bart -- "The first version of iBook looked a bit too much like toilet seat" (c)Newsweek http://candajon.azorragarse.info/ http://azorragarse.candajon.info/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
