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  Re: a python pitfall Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 13:55 -0500

#90628 — Re: a python pitfall

> I saw the following example at
> http://nafiulis.me/potential-pythonic-pitfalls.html#using-mutable-default-arguments
> and did not believe the output produced and had to try it for myself....

Pylint (and perhaps other Python "linters") would, I think, warn you
that you were using a mutable object as a default. It's more obvious
that the list is being reused if you call foo with different values
each time.

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