Creating variables on the fly...

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Tue Apr 4 16:27:26 EDT 2000


In article <gl6G4.2926$HG1.87612 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> wrote:
>
>def Sum(dict):
>    n = 0
>    for i in dict.keys():
>        n = n + dict[i]
>    return n

I think you mean:

def Sum(dict):
    n = 0
    for i in dict.values():
        n = n + i
    return n

This should be faster.
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