default value for __init__ doesn't work

[人言落日是天涯，望极天涯不见家]

On Sep 11, 1:14 pm, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap... at case.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM, 人言落日是天涯，望极天涯不见家 <kelvin.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please look at below code snippet:
> > class test():
> >    def __init__(self, a, dic={}):
> >        self.a = a
> >        self.dic = dic
> >        print('__init__ params:',a, dic)
>
> This is a pretty popular mistake to make. Default arguments aren't
> evaluated when you call the method. They're created when the method is
> created (meaning when you first run the file and the class itself is
> defined), and that's it. Because you do self.dic = dic, this means
> that every instance of the object will receive the same dict object.
> Change it for one object, and the change will show up in all of them.
> The solution to this is to use a sentinel value, like None
>
> def __init__(self, a, dic=None) :
>     if dic is None :
>         self.dic = {}
>     else :
>         self.dic = dic
>
> If None is a valid value for the parameter, make a sentinel object and use that
>
> sentinel = object()
> def __init__(self, a, dic=sentinel) :
>     if dic is sentinel : #you want to use is here, not ==
>       ...

Got it. Thanks for point out my mistake. You are very nice.