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| Subject | Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? |
| Date | Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:19:30 +0200 |
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Russel Walker wrote: > Since I've already wasted a thread I might as well... > > Does this serve as an acceptable solution? > > def supersum(sequence, start=0): > result = type(start)() > for item in sequence: > try: > result += supersum(item, start) > except: > result += item > return result That depends on what is an acceptable result ;) For instance: >>> supersum([2, 3], 1) 5 >>> supersum([[1], ["abc"]], []) [1, 'a', 'b', 'c']
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Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-06 05:37 -0700
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-06 05:54 -0700
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-06 05:59 -0700
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-06 15:19 +0200
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-07-06 19:43 +0100
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 21:10 +0100
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 21:25 +0100
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-07 03:22 +1000
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-06 14:47 -0400
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-07 09:13 -0700
Re: Simple recursive sum function | what's the cause of the weird behaviour? Russel Walker <russ.pobox@gmail.com> - 2013-07-07 09:44 -0700
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