
Alexander Belopolsky schrieb am 02.08.2014 um 16:52:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
String concatenation with + is an attractive nuisance for many people, including some who actually know better but nevertheless do it. Also, for reasons I don't understand, many people dislike or cannot remember to use ''.join.
Since sum() already treats strings as a special case, why can't it simply call (an equivalent of) ''.join itself instead of telling the user to do it? It does not matter why "many people dislike or cannot remember to use ''.join" - if this is a fact - it should be considered by language implementors.
I don't think sum(strings) is beautiful enough to merit special cased support. Special cased rejection sounds like a much better way to ask people "think again - what's a sum of strings anyway?". Stefan