Advantages of Default Factory in Dataclasses

[Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer]

Greetings list,

A simple question: why do we need field(default_factory ) in dataclasses?

Why not make that field as an attribute return a function?

Useful implementation examples / use cases appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
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