Identify the root cause behind this function’s behavior. Go!
Skills:
API Design50%
Key Takeaways
Debugs a Flask route handler function with a mutable default value
Full Transcript
greetings today's challenge dives into the world of web development with python and flask picture this we have a flask route Handler function that accepts an optional list argument this list has a mutable default value seems simple enough right but here's the catch when we call this function multiple times using the default argument value it starts behaving in unexpected ways help us examine how the function behaves how do identify the root cause behind this peculiar outcome why does the function act differently when called repeatedly what is the solution to address this issue how can we modify the function to ensure it behaves consistently and predictably no matter how many times it's called with the default argument value share your analysis and proposed solution in the comments below
Original Description
Picture this: We have a Flask route handler function that accepts an optional list argument. This list has a mutable default value. Seems simple enough, right? But here's the catch: When we call this function multiple times using the default argument value, it starts behaving in unexpected ways.
Help us examine how the function behaves and to try to identify the root cause behind this peculiar outcome. Why does the function act differently when called repeatedly?
Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers
#Google #Developers
Watch on YouTube ↗
(saves to browser)
Sign in to unlock AI tutor explanation · ⚡30
Playlist
Uploads from Google for Developers · Google for Developers · 0 of 60
← Previous
Next →
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
Developer Journey - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
How Google is working with students - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Starting your career in the Cloud - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
The Solution Challenge - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Firebase - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Cloud Hero - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Panel discussion - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
The art of negotiation - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Courage to care, solve and share - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19
Google for Developers
Version 9 of Angular, Glass Enterprise Edition 2, path to DX deprecation, & more!
Google for Developers
[DEPRECATING] Introducing a new series (Assistant for Developers Pro Tips)
Google for Developers
Detecting memory bugs with HWASan, Bazel 2.1, Next ‘20 session guide, & more!
Google for Developers
Why Podcast.app chose a .app domain name
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Bootcamp Jakarta 2019
Google for Developers
Android Studio 3.6, Android 11 Developer Preview, Kubeflow 1.0, & more!
Google for Developers
[DEPRECATING] Importance of community (Assistant on Air)
Google for Developers
Why the Flutter team switched from .io to a .dev domain name
Google for Developers
3 website-building tips from .dev creators
Google for Developers
Why NimbleDroid chose a .app domain name
Google for Developers
Android Platform Codelab, Bazel 2.2, Maps Android Utility Library v1.0, & more!
Google for Developers
Google for Games Developer Summit: A free, digital experience for game developers
Google for Developers
Inspecting Home Graph (Assistant for Developers Pro Tips)
Google for Developers
Google for Games Developer Summit Keynote
Google for Developers
Stadia Games & Entertainment presents: Keys to a great game pitch (Google Games Dev Summit)
Google for Developers
Empowering game developers with Stadia R&D (Google Games Dev Summit)
Google for Developers
Supercharging discoverability with Stadia (Google Games Dev Summit)
Google for Developers
Stadia Games & Entertainment presents: Creating for content creators (Google Games Dev Summit)
Google for Developers
Bringing Destiny to Stadia: A postmortem (Google Games Dev Summit)
Google for Developers
Live Captioning in Google Slides
Google for Developers
[DEPRECATING] User engagement for the Google Assistant
Google for Developers
TensorFlow Dev Summit ‘20, Google for Games Dev Summit, Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, & much more!
Google for Developers
Top 5 from the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2020
Google for Developers
Developer Student Clubs 2019 Turkey Leads Summit
Google for Developers
Building simpler payment experiences | Google Pay Plugin for Magento 2
Google for Developers
Become A Developer Student Club Lead
Google for Developers
Firebase Kotlin Extensions, ARM apps on the Android Emulator, Angular v9.1, & more!
Google for Developers
Test suite for Smart Home (Assistant for Developers Pro Tips)
Google for Developers
Google Play updates, Bazel 3.0, Business Console for Google Pay, & more!
Google for Developers
How to use error logs (Assistant for Developers Pro Tips)
Google for Developers
Contact Center AI, Android Studio 4.1 Canary 5, TensorFlow QAT API, & more!
Google for Developers
WebView DevTools, Kotlin meets gRPC, Flutter CodePen support, & more! (Episode 200)
Google for Developers
Offline handling for Smart Home (Assistant for Developers Pro Tips)
Google for Developers
Android 11 Dev Preview 3, Google Fonts for Flutter, Shielded VM, & more!
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #1 - What is ML?
Google for Developers
Flutter web support updates, BigQuery materialized views, Cloud Spanner emulator, & more!
Google for Developers
Computer vision by building a neural network with TensorFlow | Machine Learning Foundations
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #3 - Convolutions and pooling
Google for Developers
Android 11 Beta plans, Flutter 1.17, Dart 2.8, & much more!
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #4 - Coding with Convolutional Neural Networks
Google for Developers
Google Developers ML Summit
Google for Developers
Real-world image classification using convolutional neural networks | Machine Learning Foundations
Google for Developers
Adobe XD support for Flutter, Architecture Framework, temporary closures with Places API, & more!
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #6 - Convolutional cats and dogs
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #7 - Image augmentation and overfitting
Google for Developers
Announcing Firebase Live, Flutter Day, Java 11 on Google Cloud Functions, & more!
Google for Developers
Machine Learning Foundations: Ep #8 - Tokenization for Natural Language Processing
Google for Developers
Android 11 Beta, Google Play Asset Delivery, Firebase Crashlytics SDK, & much more!
Google for Developers
Natural Language Processing: Using sequencing APIs in TensorFlow | Machine Learning Foundations
Google for Developers
Build a sarcasm classifier using NLP and TensorFlow | Machine Learning Foundations
Google for Developers
AR Realism with the ARCore Depth API
Google for Developers
More on: API Design
View skill →Related Reads
📰
📰
📰
📰
AI For Mental Health Relies Critically On Leading-Edge Harness Engineering
Forbes Innovation
Google mise sur des Gemini moins chers, pas plus forts
Dev.to · Thibault Monteiro
The Rule of the Few: When the People Who Own the World’s Wealth Also Own the Intelligence That Will…
Medium · AI
The Great AI Price Crash: What a 1,000x Cost Drop Actually Means for the Rest of Us
Medium · Startup
🎓
Tutor Explanation
DeepCamp AI