[Python-ideas] Fast sum() for non-numbers

Vito De Tullio vito.detullio at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 06:32:55 CEST 2013

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> It's unfortunate that Python uses + for concatenation,
>>>> Is it? I'm very happy with it myself.
>> Yes. If Python used & for concatenation, we wouldn't have to worry about
> sum(lists or strings or tuples) being quadratic, because people wouldn't
> call sum on lists, strings or tuples.

yeah, they would try with all() :D
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ZeD

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