What is the 'pythonic' equivalent to the 'fold' function from functional programming?

Question

What is the most idiomatic way to achieve something like the following, in Haskell:

foldl (+) 0 [1,2,3,4,5]
--> 15

Or its equivalent in

Answer 1

You can reinvent the wheel as well:

def fold(f, l, a):
    """
    f: the function to apply
    l: the list to fold
    a: the accumulator, who is also the 'zero' on the first call
    """ 
    return a if(len(l) == 0) else fold(f, l[1:], f(a, l[0]))

print "Sum:", fold(lambda x, y : x+y, [1,2,3,4,5], 0)

print "Any:", fold(lambda x, y : x or y, [False, True, False], False)

print "All:", fold(lambda x, y : x and y, [False, True, False], True)

# Prove that result can be of a different type of the list's elements
print "Count(x==True):", 
print fold(lambda x, y : x+1 if(y) else x, [False, True, True], 0)