Ah, that makes SIX existing solutions. Do we need a seventh?
It might have dozens of solutions, perhaps an infinity of solutions. Brainfuck and assembly can be used, or even turing machine instructions... But there should be one, and preferably only one, OBVIOUS way to do it. Readability counts. Reduce lost the built-in status on Python 3. Lambdas lost the decomposing arguments like "lambda (a, b), c: a + b * c". Using a for loop section inside a generator expression or list/set/dict comprehension allow the decomposing arguments and doesn't need a function to be imported. Actually, itertools.accumulate and functools.reduce have their parameters reversed, and accumulate doesn't have a "start" parameter. Actually, the example I give in this thread is about a fold/reduce trying to show it's way simpler than the other solutions. I didn't paste here any scan use case because I sent links with several use cases, should I paste their contents here? The PyScanPrev link (https://github.com/ danilobellini/pyscanprev) has several use case examples (including some just for a comparison with other possible solutions) and even have a full rationale for this idea. -- Danilo J. S. Bellini --------------- "*It is not our business to set up prohibitions, but to arrive at conventions.*" (R. Carnap)