No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-)
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Griffini <agr...@tin.it> wrote: > help(sum) tells clearly that it should be used to sum numbers and not > strings, and with strings actually fails. > > However sum([[1,2,3],[4],[],[5,6]], []) concatenates the lists. > > Is this to be considered a bug? > > Andrea > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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