Good uses for mutable function argument default values?

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You can use it to cache values between function calls:

def get_from_cache(name, cache={}):
    if name in cache: return cache[name]
    cache[name] = result = expensive_calculation()
    return result

but usually that sort of thing is done better with a class as you can then have additional attributes to clear the cache etc.

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