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Least Astonishment Python Language Design

06/03/19

Least Astonishment and the Mutable Default Argument?
Anyone tinkering with Python long enough has been bitten (or torn to pieces) by the following issue: def foo(a=[]): a.append(5) return aPython novices would expect this function to... more
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