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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-04-22 14:52:08 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-04-22 14:52:08 (GMT)
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- explain the start argument to sum()
- various adjustments to sum() markup and explanation
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@@ -897,11 +897,12 @@ class C:
\versionadded{2.2}
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{sum}{sequence\optional{start=0}}
- Sums up the items of a \var{sequence}, from left to right, and returns
- the total. The \var{sequence}'s items are normally numbers, and are
- not allowed to be strings. The fast, correct way to join up a
- sequence of strings is by calling \code{''.join(\var{sequence})}.
+\begin{funcdesc}{sum}{sequence\optional{, start}}
+ Sums \var{start} and the items of a \var{sequence}, from left to
+ right, and returns the total. \var{start} defaults to \code{0}.
+ The \var{sequence}'s items are normally numbers, and are not allowed
+ to be strings. The fast, correct way to concatenate sequence of
+ strings is by calling \code{''.join(\var{sequence})}.
\versionadded{2.3}
\end{funcdesc}