[Tutor] list comprehension problem

[bob gailer]

Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> I'm suffering from brain failure (or most likely just being brain 
> less!) and need help to create a list comprehension for this problem:
>  
> d is a list of integers: d = [0, 8, 4, 4, 4, 7, 2, 5, 1, 1, 5, 11, 11, 
> 1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 11, 1]
>  
> Want to create a new list that adds the current number and the prior 
> number, where the prior number is the accumulation of the previous 
> numbers ie.
>  
> dd = [0, 8, 12, 16, 20, 27, 29, 34, 35, 36, 41, 52, 63, 64, 70, 73, 
> 78, 84, 95, 96]
>  
> A brute force solution which works is:
>  
> >>> dd = []
> >>> y = d[0]
> >>> for i, x in enumerate(d):
> >>>        y += x
> >>>        dd.append(y)
>  
> Is there a list comprehension solution?

Python has a reduce function that applies an operator (such as +) to 
successive elements of an iterable giving a single value (in your case 
that is 96).

APL has both reduce and scan, where scan gives you exactly what you 
want. WIBNI Python had scan?


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