[Python-3000] Python 3000 Status Update (Long!)

[Greg Ewing]

Nicko van Someren wrote:
> perhaps the sum() function could be made properly polymorphic  
> so as to remove one more class of use cases for reduce().

That's unlikely to happen. As I remember things,
sum() was deliberately restricted to numbers so
as not to present an attractive nuisance as an
inefficient way to concatenate a list of strings.

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