reduce() anomaly?

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:18:26PM -0500, Stephen C. Waterbury wrote:
> This seems like it ought to work, according to the
> description of reduce(), but it doesn't.  Is this
> a bug, or am I missing something?

> [snip]

  Hey Steve,

  d.update() would have to return the dict instance, d, for reduce() to be
usable in this way.  Since it returns None, it can't be chained.

  Jp