From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 13:15:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: The last two example functions in the section about default argument
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The last two example functions in the section about default argument
values (4.7.1) should return l, not a.  Reported by Axel Boldt.
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diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index e16fc46546f0..f9754365a02d 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ the arguments passed to it on subsequent calls:
 \begin{verbatim}
 def f(a, l = []):
     l.append(a)
-    return a
+    return l
 print f(1)
 print f(2)
 print f(3)
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ def f(a, l = None):
     if l is None:
         l = []
     l.append(a)
-    return a
+    return l
 \end{verbatim}
 
 \subsection{Keyword Arguments \label{keywordArgs}}