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authorAlex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>2003-04-22 08:12:33 (GMT)
committerAlex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>2003-04-22 08:12:33 (GMT)
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Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 1?
Core and builtins
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+- New builtin function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
+ items in iterable object seq, plus start (items are normally numbers,
+ and cannot be strings).
+
- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument