How sum() should really be done

[Erik Max Francis]

Douglas Alan wrote:

> Ah, that reminds me -- both sum() and reduce() can be removed from
> Python by extending operator.add so that it will take any number of
> arguments.

reduce can't, since reduce doesn't require the function passed to be
operator.add.

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