R. David Murray added the comment: In python3 the docstring does say iterable. It wouldn't be a bad thing to change it in 2.7, but it is not much of a priority. iterable vs sequence makes no difference to the str question: a string is an iterable. The docstring explicitly says strings are excepted, as you mentioned, so there's nothing to do about that.
I note that python3 also does not support iterables of byte-like objects. I'm not sure if this would actually be helpful to add to the docstring, though, since sum(b'abc') works and a docstring is probably not an appropriate place to go into detail as to why. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23787> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
