[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.738,1.739

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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	NEWS 
Log Message:
Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests.


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*** NEWS	22 Apr 2003 06:49:08 -0000	1.738
--- NEWS	22 Apr 2003 08:12:31 -0000	1.739
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+ - New builtin function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
+   items in iterable object seq, plus start (items are normally numbers,
+   and cannot be strings).
+ 
  - bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
    raising an exception.  This is consistent with calling the