On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:58 +1000, James Mills wrote: [...] > Still I would avoid using this idiom altogether > and jsut stick with default values. For Example: > > FOO = 1 > > def f(x=FOO): > ... > > > Use this instead: > > def f(x=1): > ...
That only works well when "1" is only used once, and as an argument to a function. Once you find yourself outside of that special case then anytime you want to change "1" to "2" then you're going to regret having made that decision. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
