On Oct 16, 11:39 am, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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]
Then you probably haven't read through these discussions: sum and strings: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/subject.html summing a bunch of numbers: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/subj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
