I think the conclusion should be that sum() is sufficiently constrained by backwards compatibility to make "fixing" it impossible before 3.0. But in 3.0 I'd like to fix it so that the 2nd argument is only used for empty lists.
Which is not unlike the get() method of dicts. So may be the default should be None?
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