[Tutor] multiply and sum two lists with list comprehension?

[Garrett Hartshaw]

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am multipliying two lists so that each of list As elements get multiplied
> to the corresponding list Bs. Then I am summing the product.
>
> For example, A= [1, 2, 3] and B=[2, 2, 2] so that I get [2, 4, 6] after
> multiplication and then sum it to get 12. I can do it using map like this:
>
> sum(map(lambda i,j:i*j, A, B))
>
> But map is being dropped out in python 3? or has it already been dropped?
>
It appears to still work in 3.1.1. I don't know if it is going to be
dropped.


>  And I have heard Guido say that list comprehension do a better job than
> map so how would we do this with list comps?
>
This should be equivalent.

Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Nov  2 2009, 15:45:00)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
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>>> A=[1,2,3]
>>> B=[2,2,2]
>>> [i*j for i,j in zip(A,B)]
[2, 4, 6]
>>> sum([i*j for i,j in zip(A,B)])
12


> Thanks,
> Ali
>
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