Johan a écrit :
Dear all,Considering this test program: def tst(a={}):
Stop here, we already know what will follow !-)And yes, it's one of Python's most (in)famous gotchas : default arguments values are computed only once, at function definition time (that is, when the def statement is executed).
The correct way to write a function with mutable default arguments is: def func(arg=None): if arg is None: arg = [] # then proceed HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list