Local variables persist in functions?

[Paul McGuire]

<120psi at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1164355869.607182.278200 at l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
> I'm a bit baffled.  Here is a bit of fairly straightforward code:
>
> def _chunkify( l, chunkSize, _curList = list() ):
>    print _curList   # yay for printf debugging

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-- Paul