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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/24/2014 07:07 AM, Larry Hastings
wrote:<br>
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b) Functions where there's no static Python value that behaves
identically to<br>
not passing in that parameter (aka "the dynamic default
problem")<br>
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Ouch! Sorry, I forgot a detail here. This can also be another form
of NULL problem. For example, socket.socket.getservbyport() takes
an optional "protocol" argument. Internally its default value is
NULL. But there's really no good static string that we could use
for the default. Guido specifically suggested accepting None here
to mean "use the internal default" should be fine. But again this
is a change, we're in beta, etc etc, discuss.<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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