[Tutor] Adding all numbers in a file or list

[Nitin Das]

alternatively you can use the lambda , reduce function for summing up all
the numbers in a list for e.g:-

lis = [1,2,3,4,5]

p = reduce(lambda x,y : x+y, lis)

p will have the value = 15.


--nitin

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:05 PM, aug dawg <augdawg09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh okay, sorry about that.
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> Thanks for the help!
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> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Sander Sweers <sander.sweers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On 23 August 2010 17:24, aug dawg <augdawg09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > So it's sum(list_name) ?
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>> Correct, but it is not limited to lists. Any itterable with
>> ints/floats will do, for example a tuple is also accepted.
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>> Greets
>> Sander
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>> PS: Please use reply to all so others on this list may benefit from
>> the questions/answers ;-)
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