In article <[email protected]> kj <[email protected]> wrote:
>The following attempt to get a list of partial sums fails:
>
>>>> s = 0
>>>> [((s += t) and s) for t in range(1, 10)]
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> [((s += t) and s) for t in range(1, 10)]
> ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>What's the best way to get a list of partial sums?
Well, define "best"; but curiously enough, I wrote this just a few
days ago for other purposes, so here you go, a slightly cleaned-up /
better documented version of what I wrote:
def iaccumulate(vec, op):
"""Do an accumulative operation on a vector (any iterable, really).
The result is a generator whose first call produces vec[0],
second call produces vec[0] op vec[1], third produces
(vec[0] op vec[1]) op vec[2], and so on.
Mostly useful with + and *, probably.
"""
iterable = iter(vec)
acc = iterable.next()
yield acc
for x in iterable:
acc = op(acc, x)
yield acc
def cumsum(vec):
"""Return a list of the cumulative sums of a vector."""
import operator
return list(iaccumulate(vec, operator.add))
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