Thanks. It helps. My right way was: d = [1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 9L, 8L, 7L, 6L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L] d = map(lambda x: x*x, d) print reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, d) or even print reduce(lambda x, y: x + y*y, d, 0) -- ==================== Oleg Orlov orlov at diasoft.ru