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[James Stroud]

Peter Otten wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>> WTF?
> 
> Put the code into a file, run it -- and be enlightened ;)

Compare the follower to the last.

tal 77% cat eraseme.py
#! /usr/bin/env python

class C:
   def __init__(self):
     self.data = []
   def doit(self, count=[0]):
     for c in self.data:
       c.doit()
     count[0] += 1
     print count[0]

c = C()
c.data.extend([C() for i in xrange(10)])
c.doit()
tal 78% python2.7 eraseme.py
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James