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Tue Mar 15 01:06:55 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/052179.html

Eric Nieuwland wrote:
> Perhaps the second argument should not be optional to emphasise this. 
> After all, there's much more to sum() than numbers.

I think practicality beats purity here. Using it on
numbers is surely an extremely common case.

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[Python-Dev] Rationale for sum()'s design?