def my_func(working_list=None):
    if working_list is None: 
        working_list = []

    # alternative:
    # working_list = [] if working_list is None else working_list

    working_list.append("a")
    print(working_list)

文档说你应该使用None作为默认值，并在函数体中显式地测试它。

def my_func(working_list=None):
    if working_list is None: 
        working_list = []

    # alternative:
    # working_list = [] if working_list is None else working_list

    working_list.append("a")
    print(working_list)

文档说你应该使用None作为默认值，并在函数体中显式地测试它。

也许最简单的事情就是在脚本中创建列表或元组的副本。这样就避免了检查的需要。例如,

    def my_funct(params, lst = []):
        liste = lst.copy()
         . . 

引用自https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#function-definitions

Default parameter values are evaluated from left to right when the function definition is executed. This means that the expression is evaluated once, when the function is defined, and that the same “pre-computed” value is used for each call. This is especially important to understand when a default parameter is a mutable object, such as a list or a dictionary: if the function modifies the object (e.g. by appending an item to a list), the default value is in effect modified. This is generally not what was intended. A way around this is to use None as the default, and explicitly test for it in the body of the function, e.g.:

def whats_on_the_telly(penguin=None):
    if penguin is None:
        penguin = []
    penguin.append("property of the zoo")
    return penguin

在这种情况下，这并不重要，但你可以使用对象标识来测试None:

if working_list is None: working_list = []

你也可以利用python中布尔运算符or的定义:

working_list = working_list or []

但是，如果调用者给你一个空列表(算作false)作为working_list，并期望你的函数修改他给它的列表，这将出乎意料。

我可能跑题了，但请记住，如果你只是想传递一个可变数量的参数，python的方法是传递一个元组*args或一个字典**kargs。这些是可选的，比语法myFunc([1,2,3])更好。

如果你想传递一个元组:

def myFunc(arg1, *args):
  print args
  w = []
  w += args
  print w
>>>myFunc(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

如果你想传递一个字典:

def myFunc(arg1, **kargs):
   print kargs
>>>myFunc(1, option1=2, option2=3)
{'option2' : 2, 'option1' : 3}