From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:17:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects
X-Git-Tag: 2.2~61
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82d309b7956683b3958d58708527cc0581b0540b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects
as default values of function/method parameters.
---

diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index cba0a8e98bb9..cd5c758a8a96 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -1388,8 +1388,9 @@ will print \code{5}.
 
 \strong{Important warning:}  The default value is evaluated only once.
 This makes a difference when the default is a mutable object such as a
-list or dictionary.  For example, the following function accumulates
-the arguments passed to it on subsequent calls:
+list, dictionary, or instances of most classes.  For example, the
+following function accumulates the arguments passed to it on
+subsequent calls:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 def f(a, L=[]):