What is a function parameter =[] for?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:56 pm, MRAB wrote:

> On 2015-11-27 02:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>> The PyPy implementation has to take special actions to preserve the ID
>> across object recreations. That is what I mean by "faked".
>>
> You could argue that it _does_ continue to exist, it just changes its
> form...

*Something* continues to exist, but it is no longer an object.

I like Chris' analogy of it being like quantum mechanics -- the *object*
isn't guaranteed to exist except when you try to access it, until then you
don't know what form it will take at any instance.



-- 
Steven