[New-bugs-announce] [issue31082] reduce takes iterable, not just sequence

[Stefan Pochmann]

New submission from Stefan Pochmann:

functools.reduce has a parameter called "iterable" and it only needs to be an iterable, not a sequence.

The paragraph documenting it says "sequence" instead of "iterable" six times:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.reduce

The help shown by executing "help(functools.reduce)" in Python additionally actually names the parameter "sequence" in the signature.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 299520
nosy: Stefan Pochmann, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: reduce takes iterable, not just sequence
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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