Andrea Griffini agriff at tin.it
Fri Aug 1 23:48:37 CEST 2014

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help(sum) tells clearly that it should be used to sum numbers and not
strings, and with strings actually fails.

However sum([[1,2,3],[4],[],[5,6]], []) concatenates the lists.

Is this to be considered a bug?

Andrea
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