Pythonic way to sum n-th list element?

[Guy Middleton]

What is the most Pythonic way to sum the n-th element of a list of lists (or
of tuples)?

The obvious (to me) way is to use reduce, a list comprehension, and a lambda:

	$ python
	Python 2.2.1 (#1, Jul  4 2002, 15:23:46) 
	[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
	Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
	>>> x = (("a", 1), ("b", 2), ("c", 3))
	>>> # want to sum 1+2+3 = 6
	... 
	>>> reduce(lambda a, b: a+b, [y[1] for y in x])
	6
	>>>
	$

But I don't really like lambda, is there a better way to do this?

 -Guy