What's wrong?

[Stefan Franke]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 23:06:25 -0700, Fuming Wang
<fuming at venus.radsci.uci.edu> wrote:

>
>Hi, following code snippet gave me a surpise. Could anyone tell me what's
>wrong?
>
This is a FAQ - see http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#6.25

Since function definitions in Python are statements, which are
executed by your scripts, the list object in your default argument -
list=[] - is created only once, and then shared between all instances.

>Thanks!
>Fuming Wang

You're welcome!
Stefan