How to emulate sum() using a list comprehension?

Question

Is it possible to emulate something like sum() using list comprehension ?

For example - I need to calculate the product of all elements in a list :

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Answer 1

No; a list comprehension produces a list that is just as long as its input. You will need one of Python's other functional tools (specifically reduce() in this case) to fold the sequence into a single value.