Accumulate , Range and Zeros

[Frank Millman]

On 2019-07-13 11:54 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Given this snippet
> 
> from itertools import *
> import operator
> 
> 
> x = [1, 2, 3] # [0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 10]
> 
> y = accumulate(x, operator.mul)
> 
> print(list(y))
> 
> why does x = list(range(5)) produces only zeros?
> 

That is an easy one.

By default, range() starts from 0. Anything multiplied by 0 equals 0. So 
you can multiply as many numbers as you like, if the first one is 0, the 
rest will also be 0.

QED

Frank Millman