Gabriel Genellina wrote: > sequences don't have to be homogeneous, and iterators cant go back. > But let GvR say that in his own words: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034854.html
you could of course dispatch on the type of the second argument (the start value), but that'd be at least as silly. here's the relevant pronouncement: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034853.html and here's an elaboration by the martellibot: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034855.html (and note that the python-dev consensus is that sum is for numbers and join is for strings. anyone who cares about writing readable code knows that names matter; different things should have different names.) (I still think a "join" built-in would be nice, though. but anyone who argues that "join" should support numbers too will be whacked with a great big halibut.) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
