How can I add the corresponding elements of several lists of numbers?

Question

I have some lists of numbers:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
[3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

How can I add these lists\' elements, assuming that all of th

Answer 1

>>> lis=[[1,2,3,4,5],[2,3,4,5,6],[3,4,5,6,7]]

>>> [sum(x) for x in zip(*lis)]
[6, 9, 12, 15, 18]