Keyword arguments - strange behaviour?

[Fredrik Lundh]

<brian.bird at securetrading.com> wrote:

> def function(arg=otherfunction(value)):
>     return arg
>
> My expectation would have been that otherfunction(value) would be
> called if (and only if) the arg keyword parameter was missing from the
> function() call (ie. the optional value is evaluated the lazy way).

what otherfunction?  what value?

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