Python program to find Cumulative sum of a list

The problem statement asks to produce a new list whose i^{th} element will be equal to the sum of the (i + 1) elements.

Examples : 

Input : list = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]
Output : [10, 30, 60, 100, 150]

Input : list = [4, 10, 15, 18, 20]
Output : [4, 14, 29, 47, 67]

Approach 1 :
We will use the concept of list comprehension and list slicing to get the cumulative sum of the list. The list comprehension has been used to access each element from the list and slicing has been done to access the elements from start to the i+1 element. We have used the sum() method to sum up the elements of the list from start to i+1.
Below is the implementation of the above approach : 

Python3

# Python code to get the Cumulative sum of a list
def Cumulative(lists):
    cu_list = []
    length = len(lists)
    cu_list = [sum(lists[0:x:1]) for x in range(0, length+1)]
    return cu_list[1:]

# Driver Code
lists = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]
print (Cumulative(lists))

Output

[10, 30, 60, 100, 150]

Approach 2:

Python3

list=[10,20,30,40,50]
new_list=[]
j=0
for i in range(0,len(list)):
    j+=list[i]
    new_list.append(j)

print(new_list)
#code given by Divyanshu singh

Output

[10, 30, 60, 100, 150]

Time Complexity: O(n)

Auxiliary Space: O(n)

Alternate approach : Use itertools module

 One approach that is not mentioned in the provided solution is to use the built-in accumulate() function from the itertools module. This function allows you to perform a cumulative sum of the elements in an iterable, and returns an iterator that produces the cumulative sum at each step.

To use this function, you can pass your list as the first argument, and specify the operator.add function as the second argument, which will be used to perform the cumulative sum. Here is an example of how this can be implemented:

Python3

from itertools import accumulate
import operator

def cumulative_sum(input_list):
    # Use the accumulate() function to perform a cumulative sum of the elements in the list
    cumulative_sum_iter = accumulate(input_list, operator.add)
    # Convert the iterator to a list and return it
    return list(cumulative_sum_iter)

input_list = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]
output_list = cumulative_sum(input_list)
print(output_list)

Output

[10, 30, 60, 100, 150]