• alehc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally dislike this because when you read “or” you expect some boolean result not a random object :/

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      1 year ago

      In python: Not necessarily.

      If you have an arg whose default is something you’re not supposed to bind as a default value in the function sig (e.g. the result of a function call), make it an Optional, default it to None, and then on the first line just do some_arg = some_arg or interesting_function()