Barry actually noticed that it's not an empty string as I had assumed,
it's the string [].
So it looks like the new version of python now sets the default value to
type(default) which in this case would be str([]) explaining that value.
It's still different from what we'd get with earlier
** Package changed: ubuntu = python2.7 (Ubuntu)
** Also affects: python3.2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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This is going to affect 3.3 also when Ubuntu gets 3.3 final, since I
just checked upstream hg head and it is broken there, even though it
works in today's python3.3 package.
** Bug watch added: Python Roundup #15906
http://bugs.python.org/issue15906
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