KK Sasa wrote: > Mark Lawrence於 2014年12月12日星期五UTC+8下午3時17分43秒寫道: >> On 12/12/2014 06:22, KK Sasa wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > The list comprehension is results = [d2(t[k]) for k in xrange(1000)], >> > where d2 is a function returning a list, say [x1,x2,x3,x4] for one >> > example. So "results" is a list consisting of 1000 lists, each of >> > length four. Here, what I want to get is the sum of 1000 lists, and >> > then the result is a list of length four. Is there any efficient way to >> > do this? Because I found it is slow in my case. I tried sum(d2(t[k]) >> > for k in xrange(1000)), but it returned error: TypeError: unsupported >> > operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'list'. Thanks. >> > >> >> I think you need something like this >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19339/a-transpose-unzip-function-in-python-inverse-of-zip >> >> I'll let you add the finishing touches if I'm correct :) >> >> -- >> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask >> what you can do for our language. >> >> Mark Lawrence > > Hi Mark and Yotam, > Thanks for kind reply. I think I didn't make my problem clear enough. > The slow part is "[d2(t[k]) for k in xrange(1000)]". In addition, I > don't need to construct a list of 1000 lists inside, but my aim is to > get the sum of all "d2(t[k])". I wonder if there is any method to sum up > efficiently.
If that is slow the culprit is probably the d2() function. If so results = [0] * 4 for k in xrange(1000): for i, v in enumerate(d2(t[k])): results[i] += v won't help. Can you tell us what's inside d2()? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list