[Python-ideas] Default arguments in Python

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:33:13PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
>> 1. Preventing the "noob" mistake of saying "def f(x = {})" and
>> expecting that a new empty dictionary will be produced for each call,
>> and
>
> As a couple of us have suggested, this, like similar jobs, should be  
> handled by program checkers.  I leave it to someone else to see if  
> existing programs already check and warn

   PyLint certainly does.

Oleg.
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