On Dec 23, 3:22 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nobody is asking you to modify your coding style. The request is that > you not throw it up as an example without mentioning the important > caveats.
No, 100% no. It's not my responsibility to mention every potentially relevant gotcha when providing example code. > Also, novice programmer == bad programmer? If they're wholly learning how to code by throwaway examples on mailing lists, then yes. Object mutability is a _major_ aspect of Python; I'm simply not going to inject an essay explaining what that implies every time I choose to use a mutable default argument. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
