On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.11074.1402880950.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I guess if you have a list of Numbers that are all the same type, you >> can probably sum them, but you can sum non-Numbers too. The docstring >> is a bit vague - sure, it's a number, but what can you do with it? > > You can use it to count to three!
Since "increment" is not a provided method, and the + and += operators are not guaranteed to be defined for any definition of 1 on the other side, I'm not sure that's actually true... but if you hold a hand grenade and want to know whether to count to Decimal('3') or 3+0j or Fraction(3, 1), I'm just going to tell you to throw the thing already! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list