[issue18305] [patch] Fast sum() for non-numbers

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

Sergey, please stop calling the current documented behavior a bug. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sum says 'The iterable‘s items are normally numbers ... To concatenate a series of iterables, consider using itertools.chain().

To make a change, there must be discussion and approval on python-ideas, including by Guido.  I believe that GvR's rejection of optimizing for strings covers optimizing for other sequences.  If you want to continue, make a pep-like post there that summarizes the discussion here and makes your current proposal.

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versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4

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