default value in __init__

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

David C. Ullrich a écrit :
> In article <48f505c8$0$20216$426a74cc at news.free.fr>,
>  Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 
(snip)
>>>> Well... How to say.. Is there any chance these people will read anything 
>>>> *at all* ?
>>> No. That's exactly the point! 
>> Yeps. But I don't think we derive the same conclusions from that point.
> 
> Erm, I think maybe your irony detector needs a little calibration...

Possibly, yes...

>>> [...]
>>> In particular default parameters should work the way the user
>>> expects! The fact that different users will expect different
>>> things here is no excuse...
> 
> I was worried someone might not realize I was being sarcastic,
> which is why I threw in this obvious impossibility
> 
>> If different users expect different - mostly incompatible - things, how 
>> would it be possible to have it working "the way the user expect" ? 
> 
> but I guess it wasn't enough.

Obviously not - at least for me. OTHO, I've seen peoples very seriously 
asking for such obvious impossibilities.

>> Should Python grow some telepathic features to guess the user's 
>> expectations and modifies itself to meet these expectations ?-)

And the answer is, of course, 42.