On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:53:53 -0700, John Nagle wrote: >>> This is a common newbie stumbling-block: Don't use lists (or anything >>> mutable) as default argument values >> >> That really should be an error. > > No it shouldn't. Punishing everybody for a newbie mistake that nobody > makes twice would be the error. > > Default mutable arguments have their place
But it's a rather obscure one where it is almost never strictly necessary to venture. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
