[Python-ideas] Fast sum() for non-numbers

[Joshua Landau]

On 12 July 2013 15:03, Sergey <sergemp at mail.ru> wrote:
> What I'm afraid of is that despite making many things faster I may
> face the argument "this also make sum() of lists faster, and this
> should not happen, sum() MUST be slow because this is how it must be".
> So after all the sum discussions I don't have much desire to even
> start working on implementation.

If this is all you have gotten from our arguments, then there was no
point talking to you. You seem to be methodologically ignoring us and
trivialising our arguments.