id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type 606549469,MDU6SXNzdWU2MDY1NDk0Njk=,4002,Remove dangerous default argument,40136154,closed,0,,,16,2020-04-24T19:58:59Z,2020-05-23T17:30:51Z,2020-05-23T17:30:51Z,CONTRIBUTOR,,,," Hi, It is good not to use the default arguments while calling a function. #### MCVE Code Sample In file `xarray/tests/test_conventions.py` ```python # Your code here 329 @contextlib.contextmanager 330 def roundtrip( 331 self, data, save_kwargs={}, open_kwargs={}, allow_cleanup_failure=False332 ): 333 store = CFEncodedInMemoryStore() 334 data.dump_to_store(store, **save_kwargs) ``` #### Problem Description Default arguments in Python are evaluated once when the function definition is executed. This means that the expression is evaluated only once when the function is defined and that the same value is used for each subsequent call. So if you are modifying the mutable default argument — a list, dict, etc., it will be modified for all future calls. ","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4002/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed,13221727,issue