[Tutor] Sum of List Elements

[grouchy]

Also, the built in function sum():

total = sum(list)

Which is probably the One Obvious Way since 2.3, if I had to guess.

On 9/24/05, R. Alan Monroe < amonroe at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I have spent an embarrassingly large amount of time trying to solve what
> on
> > its face seems like a simple problem.
>
> > I have a list of intergers, and I want to assign the sum of the
> intergers in
> > the list to a variable. There are only intergers in the list.
>
> > The best I have been able to do so far is to write a function that adds
> > list[0] and list[1], then list[1] and list [2], etc. Of course, this
> isn't
> > what I want.
>
> > I'd like to be able to sum a list of any size without having to type
> > list[0]+list[1]....
>
> total=0
> for x in list:
> total += x
>
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