From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:33:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1283491: follow docstring convention wrt. keyword-able args in sum().
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~2568
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8134d06e08a009c3bae040317dab6dd541241c7e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bug #1283491: follow docstring convention wrt. keyword-able args in sum().
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diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index ceb2fc77f42a..f6c4ebbf2f8e 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -2055,10 +2055,11 @@ builtin_sum(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(sum_doc,
-"sum(sequence, start=0) -> value\n\
+"sum(sequence[, start]) -> value\n\
 \n\
 Returns the sum of a sequence of numbers (NOT strings) plus the value\n\
-of parameter 'start'.  When the sequence is empty, returns start.");
+of parameter 'start' (which defaults to 0).  When the sequence is\n\
+empty, returns start.");
 
 
 static PyObject *