Sum of List Elements in Python

Calculate the sum of all elements in a list of numbers.

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sum-of-list-elements.py
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1# Program to find sum of list elements
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3numbers = list(map(float, input("Enter numbers separated by space: ").split()))
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5print("Sum of elements:", sum(numbers))

Output

Enter numbers separated by space: 1 2 3 4
Sum of elements: 10.0

What's going on

We read space-separated numbers, convert them to float, and use the built-in sum() to add them.