Cornelius Keller wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a quite fresh python programmer, (6 Month python experience). > Today I found something I absolotly don'nt understand: > > given the following function: > > def test_effect(class_id=None,class_ids=[]): > if class_id is not None: > if class_id not in class_ids: > class_ids.append(int(class_id)) > > print class_ids > > I observe that the class_ids array is growing when it is called with > different class id's. > > I expected class_ids to be [] if the keyword argument is not set, but > it seems to beahve like a static variable if not set.
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