cosinekitty/tally6.py

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Illustration of why the Tally function's use of a default argument is broken.

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	GlobalCount = {}
	def Tally(text, count = GlobalCount):
	for c in text:
	count[c] = 1 + count.get(c, 0)
	return count

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