What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

[Antoon Pardon]

On 2006-10-03, LaundroMat <Laundro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have this function:
>
> def f(var=1):
> return var*2
>
> What value do I have to pass to f() if I want it to evaluate var to 1?
> I know that f() will return 2, but what if I absolutely want to pass a
> value to f()? "None" doesn't seem to work..
>
> Thanks in advance.

One possible way to do what I think you want is to code as follows:

class Default (object):
  pass

def f(var=Default):
  if var is Default:
    var = 1
  return var * 2

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Antoon Pardon