What is a function parameter =[] for?

[Random832]

On 2015-11-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 	You can substitute		list()	where ever you use	[] with no
> effective change in the semantics. (I wouldn't be surprised if the parser
> was doing that behind the scenes anyway).

No, because list() does a name lookup on "list" (which is the primary issue
behind every request for frozendict/frozenset literals)