On 17/07/14 23:00, Jose Amoreira wrote:

Aha, the object that stores the default value for the optional argument
is created at the time of the execution of the function definition and
mutable objects do mutate, so that's that. It makes a lot of sense.

Yes, think of it as a feature, not a bug :-)


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