sum() is wonderful. >>> nums = [1,2,3] >>> sum(nums) 6 >>> product(nums) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'product' is not defined >>>
I understand that there is no product() or prod(). Does anybody here know why that was not included in the language? It seems as if it would be useful, so there must have been some rationale for that decision. -- Michael F. Stemper 87.3% of all statistics are made up by the person giving them. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
