On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 20:58, Guido van Rossum wrote: > (A minority view that I can't quite shake off: since the name sum() > strongly suggests it's summing up numbers, sum([]) should be 0 and no > second argument is allowed. I find using sum() for a sequence of > strings a bit weird anyway, and will probably continue to write > "".join(S) for that case.) I agree. I'd rather see sum() constrain itself to numbers and sum([]) == 0. Then I don't see a need for second argument. "Summing" a list of strings doesn't make much sense to me. -Barry
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