What's the function like sum() but for multiplication? product()?

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02:23 Answer 2 (Score 233)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5953...

Question links:
[sum()]: http://docs.python.org/library/functions...

Accepted answer links:
[math.prod()]: https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/math...
[rejected the idea]: http://bugs.python.org/issue1093
[reduce()]: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/func...
[operator.mul()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/operat...
[reduce()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functo...
[functools module]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functo...
[math module]: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/math...

Answer 2 links:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1093

Answer 3 links:
[prod()]: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/referenc...

Answer 4 links:
[here]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4938...
[Which Python module is suitable for data manipulation in a list?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4938...

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