[issue41740] string concatenation via `sum`

[Marco Paolini]

Marco Paolini <markopaolini at gmail.com> added the comment:

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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