Function returns old value

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM dn via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Speaking personally, I prefer the code to be included in the email.
> However, it would be better to use spaces rather than tabs (Python's
> preferred style, per PEP-8) because many email packages implement
> tab-stops as eight-spaces apart.
>

Be careful of wording here. PEP 8 does not specify that all Python
code should use spaces rather than tabs. Tabs are absolutely fine for
your code.

ChrisA