First speedy solution for Restricted Sum by lvcodesmith - python coding challenges

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First solution in Speedy category for Restricted Sum by lvcodesmith

def checkio(data):
    if len(data) > 0:
        return data.pop() + checkio(data)
    else:
        return 0

March 2, 2014

Comments:

kamikaze on April 17, 2014, 8:44 a.m.
recursion is evil

DanielGaray on May 1, 2014, 11:55 p.m.
could you use the lambda way

Freiling on July 28, 2017, 10:48 p.m.
I tried... it seems like Python has more issues with recursion on lambda. There are ways to do it but they seem to be pretty overwrought.

julieno on Jan. 19, 2017, 11:45 p.m.
How Python is reach with different functions. You can achieve the goal with so may ways. I don't thing it's good.

lxf42 on May 17, 2022, 8:58 a.m.
There is however a small issue, python passes lists a reference to the original list. This means changes to the list inside the function will reflect to the calling code: <pre class='brush: python'>>>> l [5, 13, 27, 14] >>> checkio(l) 59 >>> l [] </pre> While no problem for this challenge, this might cause unexpected behavior/bugs in other situations.

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