On 23 February 2012 21:19, Buck Golemon <b...@yelp.com> wrote: > I feel like the design of sum() is inconsistent with other language > features of python. Often python doesn't require a specific type, only > that the type implement certain methods. > > Given a class that implements __add__ why should sum() not be able to > operate on that class?
It can. You need to pass a second argument which will be the start value. Try help(sum) for details. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
