In article <447dd1c6-1bb2-4276-a109-78d7a067b...@d8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com>, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > def f(a, L=[]): > > > L.append(a) > > > return L > Every language has gotchas. This is one of python's. One of our pre-interview screening questions for Python programmers at Songza is about this. I haven't been keeping careful statistics, but I'd guess only about 50% of the candidates get this right.
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