Python - sum values in dictionary

Question

I have got pretty simple list:

example_list = [
    {\'points\': 400, \'gold\': 2480},
    {\'points\': 100, \'gold\': 610},
    {\'points\': 100, \'gold\':          


        

Answer 1

If you prefer map, this works too:

 import operator
 total_gold = sum(map(operator.itemgetter('gold'),example_list))

But I think the generator posted by g.d.d.c is significantly better. This answer is really just to point out the existence of operator.itemgetter.