On Sat, 9 May 2015 01:48 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > On May 8, 2015 9:26 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" < > steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> Do you think that Python will re-compile the body of the function every > time >> you call it? Setting the default is part of the process of compiling the >> function. > > To be a bit pedantic, that's not accurate. The default is evaluated when > the function object is created, i.e. when the def statement is executed at > runtime, not when the underlying code object is compiled.
Yes, that is the pedantically correct version. "Technically correct -- the best kind of correct." -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
