[wingide-users] bug or feature

[Brian]

On 8/20/05, Paul Sijben <sijben at eemvalley.com> wrote:
> I am running into a problem which I believe to be a bug in python.
> 
> I am creating a set of objects, remove it and then create them anew.
...
> 
> I see the second time that I create this object it starts NOT EMPTY. The
> val gets the SAME object list (checkes by the object references).
> 
> However when I leave the code unchanged but for the creation with
> explicitly an empty list I am getting a nively empty list.

This sounds like the issue addressed here:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects