Brendan Hahn bhahn at spam-spam.g0-away.com
Mon Apr 3 19:53:05 EDT 2000

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Matthew Hirsch <meh9 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>I like this solution.  How do I use the apply function in the body to 
>call add()?  (I won't know ahead of time how many arguments are going in 
>the function).

You would "apply(add, list-or-tuple-full-of-arguments)".  You don't really
need a separate add-up-a-list function, though, you can use reduce:
"reduce(operator.add, list-or-tuple-full-of-arguments)".

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