> Or put another way, if you treat Python like some other language you learned, apparently not realizing it is a different language. No, it's not "some other l

> Or put another way, if you treat Python like some other language you learned, apparently not realizing it is a different language. No, it's not "some other language", it's every other language. Why? Because the behavior being described isn't really a default. It's more like a static variable.