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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-09-06 18:21:30 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-09-06 18:21:30 (GMT)
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Make the examples for "Default Argument Values" more presentable and
less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt. This is in response to SF bug #458654.
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diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
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@@ -1353,7 +1353,10 @@ in the \emph{defining} scope, so that
\begin{verbatim}
i = 5
-def f(arg = i): print arg
+
+def f(arg=i):
+ print arg
+
i = 6
f()
\end{verbatim}
@@ -1366,9 +1369,10 @@ list or dictionary. For example, the following function accumulates
the arguments passed to it on subsequent calls:
\begin{verbatim}
-def f(a, l = []):
- l.append(a)
- return l
+def f(a, L=[]):
+ L.append(a)
+ return L
+
print f(1)
print f(2)
print f(3)
@@ -1386,11 +1390,11 @@ If you don't want the default to be shared between subsequent calls,
you can write the function like this instead:
\begin{verbatim}
-def f(a, l = None):
- if l is None:
- l = []
- l.append(a)
- return l
+def f(a, L=None):
+ if L is None:
+ L = []
+ L.append(a)
+ return L
\end{verbatim}
\subsection{Keyword Arguments \label{keywordArgs}}