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

How about:

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
b = [2,3,4,5,6]
c = [3,4,5,6,7]

s = map(sum, zip(a,b,c))