sum(strings)

[Andreas Jung]

--On Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 17:05 Uhr +0200 Steve McAllister 
<nosp at m.needed> wrote:

> Why does sum reject strings?  Is it a matter of efficiency of the
> underlying implementation?
>

Python is not Perl! If you need to build the sum over a sequence of strings 
containing numbers
then you need to convert them to numbers.

-aj

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