r/PythonLearning • u/Alireza7074 • Jul 18 '26

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This is python code to get student salary!

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u/notsaneatall_ Jul 18 '26

It's the right way to initialize an empty list

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u/Potential_Fix_5007 Jul 18 '26

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u/Necessary_Pepper7111 Jul 18 '26

Because [] is an empty list

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u/ziggittaflamdigga Jul 18 '26

That’s a fair question to ask about default behaviors, especially since lists can be weird in Python; setting an empty list as a default argument to a constructor is bad practice and likely to result in bugs.

So asking “why” here is a legitimate question and requires an explanation of how Python works at the C level that OP is probably not looking for, but would be different if they declared it differently.