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Hi, I was still a little confused on the concept so I searched further online and came upon this information I believe may be useful for future learners as they come to this point. I hope it helps, happy coding!
Very useful! This is the relevant text in your link, which really should have been mentioned in the Codecademy lesson:
“Python’s default arguments are evaluated once when the function is defined, not each time the function is called (like it is in say, Ruby). 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.”
Based on the hint, does that mean doesn’t matter what variable you call the list (order2, order1, or you can call it whatever), it will update for all variables? Did I understand it correctly?
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