In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James T. Dennis wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James T. Dennis wrote:
>
>> You can change it by simply assigning to the name:
>
>> In [15]: tempfile.template = 'spam'
>
>> In [16]: tempfile.template
>> Out[16]: 'spam'
>
> I know you can change it. But changing it in your namespace
> doesn't change the results returned by the functions called
> from the module.
I'm not changing it in my namespace but in the namespace of the `tempfile`
module.
> I don't quite understand how this name/variable in
> my namespace (__main__) is able to change the value
> while the functions in the module still hold the old
> value.
Default arguments are evaluated *once* when the ``def`` is executed and
not at every function call.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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