
Aug. 1, 2014
9:51 p.m.
No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-) On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Griffini <agriff@tin.it> wrote:
help(sum) tells clearly that it should be used to sum numbers and not strings, and with strings actually fails.
However sum([[1,2,3],[4],[],[5,6]], []) concatenates the lists.
Is this to be considered a bug?
Andrea
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