[Tutor] General design question

[Alan Gauld]

"Paul Melvin" <paul at assured-networks.co.uk> wrote

> For example, if I generate some numbers using range the only way I 
> could
> easily sum them was to append them to a list and then call the sum 
> function,
> if I tried without the list I couldn't sum them at all.

Lots of good general answers but specifically for a range try:

>>> print sum( range(3,7) )
18

ie range() returns the numbers already in a list you don't
need to append them to another list.


BTW If you haven't already, take a look at my tutorial.
It compares Python to VBScript which is a modern version of Basic
It may bring back some of your old menories and help translate
those to Python.

HTH

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Alan Gauld
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