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Discussion on: Good and Bad Practices of Coding in Python

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Arnaud Dupuis

The late binding thing is clearly a bug. I don't understand how the python community consider that a feature.
It look to me that some people thought of optimizing the computing speed of variables allocation and decided it was shorter to reference the same heap space instead of doing a new stack allocation. It is indeed faster but leads to that obviously flawed behavior.
Now I'm not developing the interpreter so I might be totally wrong but so far I haven't seen a valid justification to that behavior.

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Idan Arye

What do you mean by "late binding"? AFAIK late binding is a slightly different term (with slightly different semantics) for dynamic typing, but from the way you talk about this it seems you are referring to the default arguments gotcha?