Using default a empty dictionary as a default value
Diez B. Roggisch
deetsNOSPAM at web.de
Tue Mar 22 05:41:31 EST 2005
C Gillespie wrote:
> Dear All,
> I ran my code through pylint to clean it up and one of the (many) errors
> it through up was
> Dangerous default value {} as argument
> Bascially, I have:
>
> class NewClass:
> def __init__(self, myDict={}):
> for key, value in myDict:
> print key, value
>
> Obviously, this is not the way it should be done. Should I have a default
> value of None for myDict and test for it? Or is there some other way?
Yes. That's the way to go.
--
Regards,
Diez B. Roggisch
More information about the Python-list
mailing list