On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:05 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > If you want the default value to be X, then: > > - if you want a fresh X each time, then you want late binding; > > - if you want the same X each time, then you want early binding; > > - if you don't care, then early binding is likely to be a little > more efficient.
And if you don't care, then early binding also means early error detection. Another reason it should remain the default. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OV3QZVO3XBQB2VOXWYRXFAVLA4B43IWL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/