Puzzling: local variable in recursive function made global?

[Daniel Oberski]

Hi Diez,

Great, this totally clears it up. Thank you!

- daniel


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:50:20 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 
> That's not a local variable, that is a default argument. Which is in
> fact only created once for each function, yes.> 
> http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-default-values-shared-between-
objects.htm
> 
> Diez