Alan Isaac wrote: > Default parameter values are evaluated once when the function definition is > executed. Where are they stored? ... Where is this documented?
Forgive any poor phrasing: I'm not a computer science type. At http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/tut_26.html we read: "The execution of a function introduces a new symbol table used for the local variables of the function. More precisely, all variable assignments in a function store the value in the local symbol table; whereas variable references first look in the local symbol table, then in the global symbol table, and then in the table of built-in names." But the default values of function parameters seem rather like a static attributes of a class. Is that a good way to think of them? If so, are they somehow accessible? How? Under what name? Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
