Alan G Isaac schrieb: > I expected this to be fixed in Python 3: > >>>> sum(['ab','cd'],'') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: sum() can't sum strings [use ''.join(seq) instead] > > Of course it is not a good way to join strings, > but it should work, should it not? Naturally,
It's not a bug. sum() doesn't work on strings deliberately. ''.join() *is* the right and good way to concatenate strings. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
