On 2011-12-23, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> That is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a while. >> ?Mutable default arguments are *not* a bug in Python. >> >> Reminds me of a bug report a couple years back claiming >> multiple inheritence was a bug and asking it to be removed. > > Both of these could arguably be called misfeaures, but not > bugs.
Is the misfeature that Python doesn't evaluate the default argument expression every time you call the function? What would be the harm if it did? -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
