Re: best cumulative sum

"Peter Otten" <__peter__@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I think that the test for an empty iterator makes ireduce() unintuitive.

OK.
I misunderstood you point.
But that is needed to match the behavior of reduce.
>>> reduce(operator.add,[],42)
42

Thanks,
Alan


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