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know the features of your language (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jroid8 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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()