How to find the cumulative sum of numbers in a list?

Question

time_interval = [4, 6, 12]

I want to sum up the numbers like [4, 4+6, 4+6+12] in order to get the list t = [4, 10, 22].

Answer 1

In [42]: a = [4, 6, 12]

In [43]: [sum(a[:i+1]) for i in xrange(len(a))]
Out[43]: [4, 10, 22]

This is slighlty faster than the generator method above by @Ashwini for small lists

In [48]: %timeit list(accumu([4,6,12]))
  100000 loops, best of 3: 2.63 us per loop

In [49]: %timeit [sum(a[:i+1]) for i in xrange(len(a))]
  100000 loops, best of 3: 2.46 us per loop

For larger lists, the generator is the way to go for sure. . .

In [50]: a = range(1000)

In [51]: %timeit [sum(a[:i+1]) for i in xrange(len(a))]
  100 loops, best of 3: 6.04 ms per loop

In [52]: %timeit list(accumu(a))
  10000 loops, best of 3: 162 us per loop