I've worked on a lot of Python as a hobbyist and student, much of it in real wor...

_qxau on June 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2...

I've worked on a lot of Python as a hobbyist and student, much of it in real world use - probably at least 100kloc - and I've never encountered this. Where is this information? I'm worried that I'm missing some other "obvious" things. I've of course run into python's shallow vs deep copies, but I don't remember default values being shared between invocations.

ubercore on June 8, 2023 [–]

If you do a search for "python common gotchas" it's almost certain to come up, usually pretty prominently.