Pythonic way to sum n-th list element?

[David Eppstein]

In article <b7q2n1$24d2$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
 "Donn Cave" <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> So you see the functional programming answers as "higher level"
> than the imperative, procedural approach taken above?  I think
> many functional programming enthusiasts would see it that way,
> but it's more interesting to hear it from a Python programmer.

I think it would be a mistake to think of me as being a typical Python 
programmer.  Mostly, I am a theoretical computer scientist.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science