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Avoiding boilerplate by using immutable default arguments (vulwsztyn.codeberg.page)
submitted 1 month ago by Vulwsztyn@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev
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Hi, I recently realised one can use immutable default arguments to avoid a chain of:

def append_to(element, to=None):
    if to is None:
        to = []

at the beginning of each function with default argument for set, list, or dict.

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[-] Vulwsztyn@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but you can also write it like I proposed which is less boilerplaty and gives the same advantages

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