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sum() function in Python List

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It is a function in python that returns the Sum of the list. The list must contains numbers only and it returns a integer value.

Syntax:

sum(list, added)
*added– is the value that is added to the sum of the list. By default it is 0.

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Example 1:

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s = [2, 8, 10]
x = sum(s)
print(x)

Output:

20

Explanation:

Here the sum of the numbers in the list is 20. Hence it returned 20.

Example 2:

# Python program to understand sum() function in list
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s = [85, 55, 47, 98, 32, 65, 62, 54] 
x = sum(s)
print(x)

Output:

498

Explanation:

Here the sum of all the numbers in the list is 498 . Hence it returned 498.

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