restriction on sum: intentional bug?

Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Sat Oct 17 03:34:31 EDT 2009


On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:06:30 -0700, Jon Clements wrote:

> For instance, sum(['1', '2', '3']); it's not completely unreasonable for
> someone to expect
> a result of 6.

This is Python, not Perl -- Python never tries to perform numeric 
arithmetic on strings. '1'+'2' will return '12' and not 3. It is 
completely unreasonable to expect sum() to coerce strings to ints when 
the + operator does not.



-- 
Steven



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