reduce to be removed?

[Paddy]

Dustan wrote:

> Anyway, I figured out a way to get the builtin
> function 'sum' to work as I need:
> sum([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]],  [])
>

Hah!
No-one expects sum to be used on anything but numbers.

Except lists as above.

No-one expects sum to be used on anything but numbers, and maybe lists
too.

;-)


(My apologies for my poor grasp of the Spanish Inquisition sketch; and
I was alluding to
this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f34525384f8028b5 )