commit 2d93e6ee637f3ec62114919835a32ed009b99a0b
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Dec 03 02:33:53 2010 +0000
committer Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Dec 03 02:33:53 2010 +0000
tree 06b053acac52d4fdc34fee5b33167f259eae3888
parent 240f112448fa26114c261cb290706226fb09152b

Update the itertools.accumulate() docs.

Lib/test/test_itertools.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index b8f6eec..b744636 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
             self.assertEqual(
                 list(accumulate(map(typ, range(10)))),
                 list(map(typ, [0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45])))
+        self.assertEqual(list(accumulate('abc')), ['a', 'ab', 'abc'])   # works with non-numeric
         self.assertEqual(list(accumulate([])), [])                  # empty iterable
         self.assertEqual(list(accumulate([7])), [7])                # iterable of length one
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, accumulate, range(10), 5)      # too many args