[Python-Dev] sum(...) limitation

[Guido van Rossum]

No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-)


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Griffini <agriff at tin.it> wrote:

> help(sum) tells clearly that it should be used to sum numbers and not
> strings, and with strings actually fails.
>
> However sum([[1,2,3],[4],[],[5,6]], []) concatenates the lists.
>
> Is this to be considered a bug?
>
> Andrea
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