Message 96087 - Python tracker

Message96087

Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date	2009-12-07.23:38:46
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There are also a couple more things that could be improved in the documentation of sum(): 1) add a note about the "performance trap" mentioned by Alex [1] 2) remove the reduce() example because, even if it's true for that particular example, it's not always true for the general case (in the py3 doc it has been removed already). See also [2] and the other messages in that thread. [1]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039529.html [2]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039586.html

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There are also a couple more things that could be improved in the
documentation of sum():
1) add a note about the "performance trap" mentioned by Alex [1]
2) remove the reduce() example because, even if it's true for that
particular example, it's not always true for the general case (in the
py3 doc it has been removed already).

See also [2] and the other messages in that thread.

[1]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039529.html
[2]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039586.html

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Date	User	Action	Args
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