Empty list as default parameter

[Alex Panayotopoulos]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Peter Otten wrote:

[...]
> To be consistent you could do
> 
> self.myList = myList[:] or []

TypeError. You can't slice None.
If you're going to be taking copies on entry, you might as well use

	def __init__( self, myList=[] ):
		self.myList = myList[:]

However, copying is inefficient. Not a problem in most cases, but 
I've got a lot of objects to initialise. (This is for a GA). Solution: use 
"myList or []", but carefully.

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