Summing a 2D list

[MRAB]

On Jun 14, 4:05 pm, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 3:48 pm, Mark <markjtur... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this possible?
>
> def foobar(user,score):
>    sums = {}
>    for u,s in zip(user,score):
>       try:
>          sums[u] += s
>       except KeyError:
>          sums[u] = s
>    return [(u, sums[u]) for u in sums].sort()
>

sort() sorts the list in-place and returns None. Try this instead:

    return sorted([(u, sums[u]) for u in sums])

or, better yet:

    return sorted(sums.items())

> usersum = foobar(user,score)
> for u,s in usersum:
>   print "%d   %d" % (u,s)