side effects on *some* default parameters

[Joe Grossberg]

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>On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Joe Grossberg wrote:
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>>I was tripped up by this quirk of Python, and I was wondering if you 
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>  http://www.python.org/doc/tut/node6.html
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Thx -- I understand that Python does this, and I'm glad to see it's 
documented. What I'm asking is *why* the language does this -- i.e. what 
is the rationale for evaluating default arguments only once, especially 
if it merited an "important warning"?

Joe

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