How to sum a list in python

In your case your splitting the string but the result is not assigned again to arr so your variable arr value is not getting changed it remains the string, so while you apply sum(arr) it is giving an error. But if you assign it to arr the type of split elements is <class 'str'> so convert it into integer

I trying to use split instead of rsplit Solution in Python 3 :

arr = "1,2,3,4"
arr = map(int,arr.split(','))
print(sum(arr))

Output : 10

It will convert each element to integer and then take the sum. But if you try to print arr : print(arr) after the map method it gives output : <map object at 0x7f90c081acc0> So convert arr to list to access the elements So instead of arr = map(int,arr.split(',')) give arr = list(map(int,arr.split(',')))

If you want to use rsplit then Solution (in python 3):

arr = "1,2,3,4"
arr = list(map(int,arr.rsplit(',', len(arr))))
print(sum(arr))

The best way to sum your array is (you need to convert your array elements to be a floating point number, not a string):

i=0
for a in arr.split(','): i=i+float(a) #use int() if you want integers

print i

With your less efficient syntax this would simply be:

i=0
for a in arr.rsplit(',', len(arr)): i=i+float(a) #use int() if you want integers


print i

Hope this helps. Check out this reference on types of variables

You need to split then convert the result to integers before you can sum.

arr_list = arr.split(',')
result = sum(int(i) for i in arr_list)