[Python-Dev] sum(...) limitation (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Sun Aug 10 22:12:26 CEST 2014

On 8/10/2014 1:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Actually ... if I were a fan of the "".join() idiom, I'd seriously propose 0.sum(numericiterable) as the RightThang{tm]. Then we could deprecate "".join(stringiterable) in favor of "".sum(stringiterable) (with the same efficient semantics). Actually, there is no need to wait for 0.sum() to propose "".sum... but it is only a spelling change, so no real benefit.

Thinking about this more, maybe it should be a class function, so that it wouldn't require an instance:

str.sum( iterable_containing_strings )

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