Le Monday 23 June 2008 11:39:44 Boris Borcic, vous avez écrit :
> John Machin wrote:
> > Instead of sum(a + b for a, b in zip(foo, bar))
> > why not use sum(foo) + sum(bar)
> > ?
>
> or even sum(foo+bar) as may apply.
Because some are better than others :
sum(foo+bar) is the worst, it create a superfluous list of len(foo) + len(bar)
elements.
sum(a + b for a, b in zip(foo, bar)), creates a list of max(len(foo),
len(bar)) elements, in most cases it is the same as the former.
This could have been corrected using itertools.izip.
So the winner is sum(foo) + sum(bar), which does not create anything not
needed.
But if the question is "how to build the list and sum up all elements in a
efficient way for sequences of arbitrary length ", it's important to make it
in the same iteration, so the most effective/clear, and so "pythonic", way to
do this is (untested) :
res, sum = [], 0
for s in (a + b for a, b
in zip(itertools.izip(xrange(1, 51),
xrange(50, 0, -1)))):
sum += s
res.append(sum)
Which is "pythonic" in first place is to provide sequences of datas as
iterators when they can grow in size.
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