Help with cumulative sum

[MRAB]

Maggie wrote:
> On Sep 8, 3:29 pm, Maggie <la.f... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Building on the code that I posted in one of the previous posts.. I
>> need to find a cumulative sum of the file of the times in the test
>> file:
>>
>> here is the code i have:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>> import os.path
>>
>> #name of output file
>> filename = "OUTPUT.txt"
>>
>> #open the file
>> test = open ("test.txt", "rU")
>>
>> #read in all the data into a list
>> readData = test.readlines()
>>
>> count = 0
>>
>> FILE = open(filename, "w")
>>
>> for item in readData:
>>
>>    count = count + 1
>>    tmp_string = str(count) + '  ' + item
>>    print >> FILE, tmp_string,
>>
>> else:
>>    print 'The loop is finito'
>>
>> -----
>>
>> my test file is this
>>
>> 23
>> 241
>> 34234
>> 83
>> 123
>>
>> and I need to find a CUMULATIVE sum (or the running sum)...what would
>> be the best way to go about that given the code i already have?
>>
>> thank you all!
> 
> ---
> 
> was trying to plug in the sum for the loop..but for some reason it
> doesnt want to work --

Read the traceback.

> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import os.path
> 
> #name of output file
> filename = "OUTPUT.txt"
> 
> #open the file
> formisano = open ("test.txt", "rU")
> 
> #read in all the data into a list
> readData = formisano.readlines()
> 
> sum = 0

Try to avoid using the names of builtin functions and classes, in this 
case 'sum'.

> count = 0
> 
> FILE = open(filename, "w")
> 
> for item in readData:
> 
>    count = count + 1
>    sum = sum + (int(item) * int(item))
>    tmp_string = str(count) + '	' + item + '	'+ sum

You can't add a number to a string; a number is a number and a string is
a string! :-)

     tmp_string = str(count) + '	' + item + '	'+ str(sum)

>    print >> FILE, tmp_string,
> 
> else:
>    print 'The loop is finito'