Summing elements in a list
You can sum numbers in a list simply with the sum() built-in:
sum(your_list)It will sum as many number items as you have. Example:
my_list = range(10, 17)my_list[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]sum(my_list)91For your specific case:
For your data convert the numbers into int first and then sum the numbers:
data = ['5', '4', '9']sum(int(i) for i in data)18This will work for undefined number of elements in your list (as long as they are "numbers")
Thanks for @senderle's comment re conversion in case the data is in string format.
Python iterable can be summed like so - [sum(range(10)[1:])] . This sums all elements from the list except the first element.
>>> atuple = (1,2,3,4,5)>>> sum(atuple)15>>> alist = [1,2,3,4,5]>>> sum(alist)15