default value in __init__

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:52:52 +0000, Aaron Brady wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:17:28 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> In message
>>> <da493481-7183-423d-bf12-56c1ca8a7f04 at k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>>> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The purpose of a parameter is something that the caller can supply,
>>>> but doesn't have to.  It is not for internal-use-only items.
>>> 
>>> Exactly!
>>
>> Says who?
>>
>> Using arguments for internal-use-only is a perfectly acceptable example
>> of practicality beating purity.
> 
> That's a stretch.


It's a standard Python idiom used by the standard library.



-- 
Steven