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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/spec_list.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec_list.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec_list.py
index bc473f530c..1aa0ab870e 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/spec_list.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec_list.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ def spec_ordering_key(s):
class SpecList(object):
- def __init__(self, name='specs', yaml_list=[], reference={}):
+ def __init__(self, name='specs', yaml_list=None, reference=None):
+ # Normalize input arguments
+ yaml_list = yaml_list or []
+ reference = reference or {}
+
self.name = name
self._reference = reference # TODO: Do we need defensive copy here?