Non-intuitive treatment of empty list as default parameter value on class method

[Michael Hudson]

"Hans Peter de Koning" <hpdk at chello.nl> writes:

> Is the behaviour as illustrated in the first excerpt as intended? Can
> somebody enlighten me?

Yes:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq06.025.htp

Cheers,
M.

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