"The history keeps growing every time I call it"—A story about falling into the trap of Python's default arguments

Last week, I was given a small assignment in class. It was a seemingly simple task: "Write a function that records test ...
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Implicit keyword arguments for Python

Python functions can use both positional and keyword arguments; the latter provide a certain level of documentation for an argument and its meaning, while allowing them to be given in any order in a ...
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From late-bound arguments to deferred computation, part 1

Back in November, we looked at a Python proposal to have function arguments with defaults that get evaluated when the function is called, rather than when it is defined. The article suggested that the ...
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7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skills

Slicing bytes copies. On a small payload nobody notices, but slice a large packet or image buffer in a loop and the copies ...