[Python-ideas] Fast sum() for non-numbers - why so much worries?

[Joshua Landau]

On 10 July 2013 22:52, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 02:36 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
>>
>> On 10 July 2013 22:03, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/10/2013 01:45 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
>>>> If Sergey doesn't do this separation, would it be fine if I did it? I
>>>> like the idea for __iadd__ sum, and I don't want Sergey block progress
>>>> on the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Make a patch and add it to the tracker.
>>
>>
>> Actually, there is already a bug on the tracker at
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue18305 and the response was "discuss it on
>> Python-Ideas".
>>
>> Hence, I want to discuss it on Python ideas. So should I spawn it off
>> onto a seperate thread about *just* the __iadd__ enhancement?
>
>
> A separate thread on Python Ideas is probably appropriate, but you can add
> your __iadd__ only patch to that issue.  I would think it would have a
> better chance of acceptance since it would be a smaller change.

A cursory glance yields that that is the original patch.