[issue34659] Inconsistency between functools.reduce & itertools.accumulate

[Azat Ishmukhametovich Ibrakov]

New submission from Azat Ishmukhametovich Ibrakov <azatibrakov at gmail.com>:

Why there is an optional `initial` parameter for `functools.reduce` function, but there is no such for `itertools.accumulate`, when they both are doing kind of similar things except that `itertools.accumulate` yields intermediate results and `functools.reduce` only the final one?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 325243
nosy: lycantropos
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistency between functools.reduce & itertools.accumulate
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5

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