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Re:Anti-Patterns in Python Programming by Retric on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @06:06PM (#8012508)
I would caution you not to interview on things you would not be happy to see in your code base.

In my experence your much better off with people that look at odd syntax and say, "I don't know what that does" vs those who do.

Re:Anti-Patterns in Python Programming by GhotiFish on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:49PM (#8012861)
Well, this is pulled from a list of common python errors.

Using the default value in some capacity isn't that uncommon... Though maybe you were speaking to a more general case? for example, decoding a an obfuscated C file.