Python’s default arguments are evaluated once when the
function is defined, not each time the function is called.
This means that if you use a mutable default argument
and mutate it, you will and have mutated that object for
all future calls to the function as well.
more details about this wrong usage here:
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/gotchas/#mutable-default-arguments
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