<li><strong>A function has its default values evaluated when it's first encountered in the scope.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Any changes to default values that are mutable will persist between invocations.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Value of a default argument is evaluated when function is first encountered in the scope.</strong></li>
<li><strong>If this value is a mutable object, then all its mutations will persist between invocations.</strong></li>
</ul>
<div><h2id="splatoperator"><ahref="#splatoperator"name="splatoperator">#</a>Splat Operator</h2><div><h3id="insidefunctioncall-1">Inside Function Call</h3><p><strong>Splat expands a collection into positional arguments, while splatty-splat expands a dictionary into keyword arguments.</strong></p><pre><codeclass="python language-python hljs">args = (<spanclass="hljs-number">1</span>, <spanclass="hljs-number">2</span>)
<li><strong>File must be opened with a <codeclass="python hljs"><spanclass="hljs-string">'newline=""'</span></code> argument, or newlines embedded inside quoted fields will not be interpreted correctly!</strong></li>
<li><strong>For XML and binary Excel files (xlsx, xlsm and xlsb) use <ahref="#dataframeplotencodedecode">Pandas</a> library.</strong></li>
<li><strong>To print the table to the console use <ahref="#table">Tabulate</a> library.</strong></li>
<li><strong>For XML and binary Excel files (xlsx, xlsm and xlsb) use <ahref="#dataframeplotencodedecode">Pandas</a> library.</strong></li>
'<strong>Generators returned by the <a href="#generator">generator functions</a> and <a href="#comprehensions">generator expressions</a>.</strong>':'<strong>Generators returned by the generator functions (p. 4) and generator expressions (p. 11).</strong>',
'<strong>File objects returned by the <a href="#open">open()</a> function, etc.</strong>':'<strong>File objects returned by the open() function (p. 22), etc.</strong>',
'<strong>Functions report OS related errors by raising either OSError or one of its <a href="#exceptions-1">subclasses</a>.</strong>':'<strong>Functions report OS related errors by raising OSError or one of its subclasses (p. 23).</strong>',
'<strong>To print the table to console use <a href="#table">Tabulate</a> library.</strong>':'<strong>To print the table to console use Tabulate library (p. 34).</strong>',
'<strong>To print the table to the console use <a href="#table">Tabulate</a> library.</strong>':'<strong>To print the table to the console use Tabulate library (p. 34).</strong>',
'<strong>For XML and binary Excel files (xlsx, xlsm and xlsb) use <a href="#dataframeplotencodedecode">Pandas</a> library.</strong>':'<strong>For XML and binary Excel files (xlsx, xlsm and xlsb) use Pandas library (p. 46).</strong>',
'<strong>Bools will be stored and returned as ints and dates as <a href="#encode">ISO formatted strings</a>.</strong>':'<strong>Bools will be stored and returned as ints and dates as ISO formatted strings (p. 9).</strong>',
'<strong>An object with the same interface called ProcessPoolExecutor provides true parallelism by running a separate interpreter in each process. All arguments must be <a href="#pickle">pickable</a>.</strong>':'<strong>An object with the same interface called ProcessPoolExecutor provides true parallelism by running a separate interpreter in each process. All arguments must be pickable (p. 25).</strong>',