default value in __init__

Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Sat Oct 11 04:59:34 EDT 2008


On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:39:30 -0700, kenneth (a.k.a. Paolo) wrote:

> On Oct 9, 10:14 am, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> kenneth wrote:
>> > the 'd' variable already contains the 'self.d' value of the first
>> > instance and not the default argument {}.
>>
>> > Am I doing some stupid error, or this is a problem ?
>>
>> No, it always contains the default argument because default values are
>> created just ONE
>> TIME.http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-default-values-shared-between-
objects...
> 
> 
> Wow, it's a very "dangerous" behavior ...

No, it's very *useful* behaviour.


-- 
Steven



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