Maintaining a list

[Karl Pflästerer]

On 14 Feb 2004, Karl Pflästerer <- sigurd at 12move.de wrote:

> So if you write:

Here something got lost during c&p

>>> def myfunc (item, lst = []):
...     lst.append(item)
...     return lst
... 

>>>> myfunc(1)
> [1]
>>>> myfunc(2)
> [1, 2]
>>>> myfunc(3)
> [1, 2, 3]

   KP

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