[Python-ideas] Documenting Python warts

[Oleg Broytman]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:07:58AM +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mutable default arguments make perfect sense once you
> understand the difference between compile time, definition time and
> execution time for a function. Defaults are evaluated at definition
> time, thus they are necessarily shared across all invocations of the
> function.

   I.e., users have to understand the current implementation. Mutable
defaults are not a language design choice, they are dictated by the
implementation, right?

Oleg.
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