question od default args

[Mark Jackson]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> Gonçalo Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > When I want default args I usually do
> >
> > def (arg = None):
> >     ...
> >
> > But what if I want to make None a reasonable argument too? That is, I
> > want to know if the user has in fact passed an argument, and if not to
> > do something special, with None (or whatever object) being a reasonable
> > arg to be passed.
> 
> hmm.  wasn't this just discussed in some thread on a
> newsgroup near you?
> 
> three alternatives:
> 
>     __UNDEF__ = [] # guaranteed to have a unique id
> 
>     def myfunc(arg=__UNDEF__):
>         if arg is __UNDEF__:
>             print "no argument"
>         else:
>             ...

More quickly:

    def myfunc(arg=[]):
        if arg is myfunc.func_defaults[0]:
            print "no argument"
        else:
            ...

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