Right, thanks everyone, that's a useful lesson learned. As I suspected I
was being tripped over by some feature of Python I was unaware of. I had
been looking up lists in the documentation, not functions, and could find
no explanation.
Prbolem solved!
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Sean Hammond wrote:
> I've managed to create a scenario in which editing an object in a list of
> objects seems to edit every object in the list, rather than just the one.
> I'm totally stumped and wondered if anyone would be kind enough to read my
> explanation and see if they have any suggestion
Sean Hammond wrote:
> class Area:
> def __init__(self, occupants = []):
>self.occupants = occupants
>
...
> I must be making some really stupid mistake, but this just doesn't
> look like the list behaviour I would expect. What's going on here?
Whenever you use the default value
Sean Hammond schrieb:
>
> I've managed to create a scenario in which editing an object in a list
> of objects seems to edit every object in the list, rather than just the
> one. I'm totally stumped and wondered if anyone would be kind enough to
> read my explanation and see if they have any sug
