[Python-checkins] Stick with the phrase "default parameter value" (GH-21590)

Andre Delfino webhook-mailer at python.org
Wed Jul 22 19:58:31 EDT 2020


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b9f6ac9d463b3c5823197b0bde3869876f65f413
commit: b9f6ac9d463b3c5823197b0bde3869876f65f413
branch: master
author: Andre Delfino <adelfino at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-07-22T20:58:19-03:00
summary:

Stick with the phrase "default parameter value" (GH-21590)

files:
M Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index c14e7c79fe14c..df720f6cc3238 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -571,9 +571,9 @@ value --- this is a syntactic restriction that is not expressed by the grammar.
 **Default parameter values are evaluated from left to right when the function
 definition is executed.** This means that the expression is evaluated once, when
 the function is defined, and that the same "pre-computed" value is used for each
-call.  This is especially important to understand when a default parameter is a
+call.  This is especially important to understand when a default parameter value is a
 mutable object, such as a list or a dictionary: if the function modifies the
-object (e.g. by appending an item to a list), the default value is in effect
+object (e.g. by appending an item to a list), the default parameter value is in effect
 modified.  This is generally not what was intended.  A way around this is to use
 ``None`` as the default, and explicitly test for it in the body of the function,
 e.g.::



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