[Tutor] sumHighest function help
Lloyd Francis
lloydyf333 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 12:44:11 EDT 2016
Hi,
I want to write a function that will calculate and return the sum of the *n*
highest value in a list *a. *Also, when n is less than 0, the answer should
be zero, and if n is greater than the number of elements in the list, all
elements should be included in the sum.
In addition i want to write the code in a function with only one line of
code in it.
So far I have:-
def sumHighest(a, n):
lambda a, n : sum(a[:n])
This doesn't work but i want to use *lambda *and the slice in the function.
An appropriate test would be:-
input - sumHighest([1,2,3,4], 2)
output - 7
thanks L.
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