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On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 04:16:27 -0700 (PDT), ReviewBoard User
<lalitha.viswanath@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Hi
> I am a newbie to python and am trying to write a program that does a
> sum of squares of numbers whose squares are odd.
> For example, for x from 1 to 100, it generates 165 as an output (sum
> of 1,9,25,49,81)
> 
> Here is the code I have
> print reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, filter(lambda x: x%2, map(lambda x:
> x*x, xrange
> (10**6)))) = sum(x*x for x in xrange(1, 10**6, 2))
> 
> I am getting a syntax error.
> Can you let me know what the error is?
>
	I can't even read that mess... three nested lambda?

	Not the most efficient version but...

>>> sum( x*x for x in range(100/2) if (x*x % 2) and (x*x < 100) )
165
>

	The range(100/2) is a simple reduction to avoid invoking a sqrt
function... the more economical is

>>> import math
>>> sum( x*x for x in range(int(math.sqrt(100))) if x*x % 2)
165
>>> 
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