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Python Gotchas: Late-Binding Lambdas, Exhausted Generators, Mutating While Iterating and Shared Lists

By ThisIsDave — Dave Saylor

Executed examples on Python 3.10: [lambda: i for i in range(3)] returning [2, 2, 2], default argument and functools.partial fixes, one-shot generators, map and iterators, RuntimeError on dict mutation, list.remove skipping items, and [[0]*2]*2.