Why isn't there a built-in product()?

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 07/07/2022 19.06, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 22:55, Michael F. Stemper
> <michael.stemper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> sum() is wonderful.

>> I understand that there is no product() or prod(). Does anybody
>> here know why that was not included in the language? It seems
>> as if it would be useful, so there must have been some rationale
>> for that decision.
> 
> There is math.prod:
> 
>    >>> from math import prod
>    >>> prod([1, 2, 3, 4])
>    24
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#math.prod

I did not know that. Thanks.


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