On Dec 23, 12:59 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's only irrelevant in the immediate context of the code you posted. > But when Joe Novice sees your code and likes it and duplicates it a > million times
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to modify my coding style for the sake of bad programmers. The context is _important_. Why should I guard against default argument mutability when its not going to occur in the function body? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
