sum for sequences?

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2010-03-24, kj <no.email at please.post> wrote:
>
>
> Is there a sequence-oriented equivalent to the sum built-in?  E.g.:
>
>   seq_sum(((1, 2), (5, 6))) --> (1, 2) + (5, 6) --> (1, 2, 5, 6)
>
> ?
>
> (By "sequence" I'm referring primarily to lists and tuples, and
> excluding strings, since for these there is ''.join()).

reduce, or functools.reduce in Python 3.1.

>>> functools.reduce(operator.add, ((1, 2), (5, 6)))
(1, 2, 5, 6)

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