How can I sum a column of a list?

Question

I have a Python array, like so:

[[1,2,3],
 [1,2,3]]

I can add the row by doing sum(array[i]), how can I sum a column, using a

Answer 1

You may be interested in numpy, which has more advanced array features. One of which is to easily sum a column:

from numpy import array

a = array([[1,2,3],
 [1,2,3]])

column_idx = 1
a[:, column_idx].sum() # ":" here refers to the whole array, no filtering.