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Author gvanrossum
Recipients gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, serprex
Date 2010-06-11.21:48:25
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Message-id <1276292906.9.0.814467295116.issue8977@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It's not that much more evil than this:

A = []

def f(x):
  A.append(x)

print(A)  # []
f(4)
print(A)  # [4]

I've always thought this is a borderline case.
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2010-06-11 21:48:27gvanrossumsetrecipients: + gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, serprex
2010-06-11 21:48:26gvanrossumsetmessageid: <1276292906.9.0.814467295116.issue8977@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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