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You鈥檙e writing a simple Python function. It takes an item and adds it to a list, which defaults to an empty list if none is provided. It seems straightforward, but then this happens: def add_to_list(item, target=[]): # 馃毃 This is the famous bug! ...
Have you ever introduced identical twins to your Python code, only to have it insist they're completely different people? Or worse, claimed two unrelated objects are the same just because they look alike? This common confusion stems from mixing up Py...
How I learned to stop worrying about messy code and love the with statement If you鈥檝e written more than a few lines of Python, you鈥檝e probably used the with statement. It鈥檚 that thing you use to open files: with open('file.txt', 'r') as f: conte...
