After simplifying my problem, I can say that I want to get the sum of
the product of two culumns:
Say
m= [[ 'a', 1], [ 'b', 2],[ 'a', 3]]
assuming you meant ['c', 3] here... ^
r={'a':4, 'b':5, 'c':6}
What I need is the calculation
1*4 + 2*5 + 3*4 = 4 + 10 + 12 = 26
and you mean "3*6" here instead of "3*4", which is 18 instead of
12, making the whole sum 4+10+18=32
Then it sounds like you could do something like
result = sum(v * r[k] for k,v in m)
where "m" is any arbitrary iterable of tuples. If the keys (the
letters) aren't guaranteed to be in "r", then you can use
defaults (in this case "0", but could just as likely be "1"
depending on your intent):
result = sum(v * r.get(k,0) for k,v in m)
If the conditions above don't hold, you'll have to introduce me
to your new math. ;-)
-tkc
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