"Devan L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the exception of reduce(lambda x,y:x*y, sequence), reduce can be > replaced with sum, and Guido wants to add a product function.
The update function is not at all limited to sums and products, but can be any callable with the appropriate signature. The new any() and all() functions are examples that use other updates. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list