On Jan 6, 2008 1:19 AM, hashcollision <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I request the addition of prod(): > > def prod(seq): > s = 1 > for x in seq: > s *= x > > prod is always as useful as sum()
No it isn't. This was discussed extensively at the time sum() was proposed and accepted, and it was found that product() has much less usage than sum() -- so much less so that it's not worth adding. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
