[Question] Functional style with lists

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

David Berthelot writes:
>I would like to sum the numeric values by using map.
>I've tried this:
>>>> map(lamda x,y:x+y,map(L.getitem,(1,)*len(L)))
>But of course it doesn't work...

	The reduce() built-in does this sort of thing.  Try:
>>> reduce(lambda total,(name,amt): total + amt, L, 0)
75

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