> Hi All, > I have spent an embarrassingly large amount of time trying to solve what on > its face seems like a simple problem.
> I have a list of intergers, and I want to assign the sum of the intergers in > the list to a variable. There are only intergers in the list. > The best I have been able to do so far is to write a function that adds > list[0] and list[1], then list[1] and list [2], etc. Of course, this isn't > what I want. > I'd like to be able to sum a list of any size without having to type > list[0]+list[1].... total=0 for x in list: total += x _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor