[Tutor] Adding Lists?

[Alan Gauld]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote

>> yet if i wrote range (1, 500, 2) [1, 3, 5, 7....... ..499] is there 
>> a command where i could total that list quickly?
>>
>
> You're looking for sum --
>  sum(range (1, 500, 2) )

Or on older Python versions reduce:

import operator
s = reduce(operator.add, range(1,500,2))

HTH,

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