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Author mpaolini
Recipients Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com, mpaolini
Date 2020-09-07.21:49:37
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also worth noting, the start argument is type checked instead. Maybe we could apply the same checks to the items of the iterable?

python3 -c "print(sum(('a', 'b', 'c'), start='d'))"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: sum() can't sum strings [use ''.join(seq) instead]


see https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/c96d00e88ead8f99bb6aa1357928ac4545d9287c/Python/bltinmodule.c#L2310
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2020-09-07 21:49:37mpaolinisetmessageid: <1599515377.55.0.33688060043.issue41740@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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