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Dangerous Python Default Arguments

Apr 01, 2012
Dave
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Dangerous? Really? Well, not if you understand how it works. Note: I’m not the first to write about this subject. When writing a function in Python, it’s handy to use default argument values like this: And you think this will provide an easy way to let lazy callers pass no arguments to your function, and […]

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