restriction on sum: intentional bug?

[ryles]

On Oct 16, 6:53 pm, ryles <ryle... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then you probably haven't read through these discussions:
>
> sum and strings:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/subject.html
> summing a bunch of numbers:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/subj

You meant:

sum and strings:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/subject.html

summing a bunch of numbers:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/subject.html