What is the pythonic way to calculate dot product?

Question

I have two lists, one is named as A, another is named as B. Each element in A is a triple, and each element in B is just an number. I would like to calculate the result defi

Answer 1

All above answers are correct, but in my opinion the most pythonic way to calculate dot product is:

>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> b=[4,5,6]
>>> sum(map(lambda pair:pair[0]*pair[1],zip(a,b)))
32