Is it allowed to use function results as default arguments ?

[Guilherme Polo]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Stef Mientki <stef.mientki at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I've a perfect working procedure,
> at least as far I've tested it it works perfect.
>
> But I was just experimenting with inspect,
> and saw that the default argument was not parsed correctly.
>
> So I wonder if this is allowed:
>
> def Get_Relative_Path ( target, base=os.curdir ) :
>  ...
>
> As inspect returns the following:
>
> (['target', 'base'], None, None, ('.',))

Are you referring to the last item in the tuple above ? It is merely
listing the default values, it is not associating target to '.'. What
else would the tuple be if there is just base with a default value ?

>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
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