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From: pa@see.signature.invalid (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: an adventure: a Lisp-style linked list
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 18:41:27 -0000 (UTC)
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Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:

>   def __init__(self, d, ls):
>     self.head = d
>     self.tail = ls

Why not
    def __init__(self, d, ls=None):

and avoid the need for a List.Empty ?

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