"Emile van Sebille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
yet if i wrote range (1, 500, 2) [1, 3, 5, 7....... ..499] is there
a command where i could total that list quickly?
You're looking for sum --
sum(range (1, 500, 2) )
Or on older Python versions reduce:
import operator
s = reduce(operator.add, range(1,500,2))
HTH,
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