Georg Brandl wrote: > Paddy wrote: <<SNIP>> > > I get where you are coming from, but in this case we have a function, > > sum, that is not as geeral as it could be. sum is already here, and > > works for some types but not for strings which seems an arbitrary > > limitation that impede duck typing. > > Only that it isn't arbitrary. Hi Georg, I said it *seemed* arbitrary. I doubt that it is arbitrary, and thought someone would say why the restriction is necessary.
> > > - Pad. > > > > P.S. I can see why, and am used to the ''.join method. A newbie > > introduced to sum for integers might naturally try and concatenate > > strings using sum too. > > Yes, and he's immediately told what to do instead. Yep, thats the what. Now as to the why? - paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list