On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 22:55, Michael F. Stemper <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
There is math.prod: >>> from math import prod >>> prod([1, 2, 3, 4]) 24 https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#math.prod -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
