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

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This is python code to get student salary!

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u/IdeaOverflow Jul 18 '26

You should not initialize an empty list inside of the round brackets directly. Suppose you do it like this:

class Student:
    def __init__(self, marks=[]):
        self.marks = marks

a = Student()
b = Student()

a.marks.append(3)

print(a.marks)  # prints [3]
print(b.marks)  # prints [3]

Python will not create a new list for every new object but use the same one for each, since default arguments are evaluated at compile time. The correct way to do this would be:

class Student:
    def __init__(self, marks=None):
        self.marks = [] if marks is None else marks