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bpo-37134: Use PEP570 syntax for sum() (GH-13851)
(cherry picked from commit c4c421d) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <[email protected]>
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Doc/library/functions.rst

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about strings, see :ref:`textseq`.
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.. function:: sum(iterable[, start])
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.. function:: sum(iterable, /, start=0)
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Sums *start* and the items of an *iterable* from left to right and returns the
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total. *start* defaults to ``0``. The *iterable*'s items are normally numbers,
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and the start value is not allowed to be a string.
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total. The *iterable*'s items are normally numbers, and the start value is not
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allowed to be a string.
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For some use cases, there are good alternatives to :func:`sum`.
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The preferred, fast way to concatenate a sequence of strings is by calling

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