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

[Jim Jewett]

On 6/21/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> The real problem with "sum", I think, is that the parameter list is
> ill-conceived (perhaps because it was added before variable length
> parameter lists were?).  It should be

>   sum(*operands)

> not

>   sum(operands, initialvalue=?)

Is this worth fixing in Python 3, where keyword-only parameters become
an option?

    sum(*operands, start=0)

-jJ