Strange error

bruno at modulix onurb at xiludom.gro
Thu May 18 10:59:48 EDT 2006


WSobczuk at gmail.com wrote:
> Evaluation of default values seems to have nothing to do with the case
> I described.

It does. Please *read* the faq:
http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects

> The default values are both tags = {}, and still inside mysearch() I
> sometimes get some value from previous call inside tags, when the tags
> keyword argument is not specified.

def wtf(foo, args=[]):
  args.append(foo)
  print args

wtf('???')
wtf('???')
wtf('???')

You didn't post the actual code for mysearch(), but chances are your
code is modifying it !-)

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"



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