Mutable default

The default list assigned to b is created when the f functions is defined. After that, each call to f() (that does not get a "b" parameter) uses this common list.

def f(a, b = []):
    b.append(a)
    return b

print(f(1))
print(f(2))
print(f(3))

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Use None instead: