function that counts...

[John Posner]

On 5/19/2010 5:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:58:04 +0200, superpollo wrote:
>
>
> Rather than iterating over an index j = 0, 1, 2, ... and then fetching
> the jth character of the string, you can iterate over the characters
> directly. So the inner loop is better written:
>
> for c in s:
>      sum += int(c)
>

Or, as a one-liner (and not shadowing the built-in *sum* function):

   mysum = sum(map(int, str(i)))

-John