[Tutor] list comprehension problem
Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
Fri Jul 3 21:22:30 CEST 2009
On 7/3/2009 12:09 PM Dinesh B Vadhia said...
> I'm suffering from brain failure (or most likely just being brain less!)
> and need help to create a list comprehension for this problem:
>
> d is a list of integers: d = [0, 8, 4, 4, 4, 7, 2, 5, 1, 1, 5, 11, 11,
> 1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 11, 1]
>
> Want to create a new list that adds the current number and the prior
> number, where the prior number is the accumulation of the previous
> numbers ie.
[ sum(d[:j]) for j in range(len(d)) ][1:]
Emile
>
> dd = [0, 8, 12, 16, 20, 27, 29, 34, 35, 36, 41, 52, 63, 64, 70, 73, 78,
> 84, 95, 96]
>
> A brute force solution which works is:
>
> >>> dd = []
> >>> y = d[0]
> >>> for i, x in enumerate(d):
> >>> y += x
> >>> dd.append(y)
>
> Is there a list comprehension solution?
>
> Dinesh
>
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