How to find the cumulative sum of numbers in a list?

Question

time_interval = [4, 6, 12]

I want to sum up the numbers like [4, 4+6, 4+6+12] in order to get the list t = [4, 10, 22].

Answer 1

In Python 2 you can define your own generator function like this:

def accumu(lis):
    total = 0
    for x in lis:
        total += x
        yield total

In [4]: list(accumu([4,6,12]))
Out[4]: [4, 10, 22]

And in Python 3.2+ you can use itertools.accumulate():

In [1]: lis = [4,6,12]

In [2]: from itertools import accumulate

In [3]: list(accumulate(lis))
Out[3]: [4, 10, 22]