Python | Summation of two list of tuples

Sometimes, while working with Python records, we can have a problem in which we need to perform cross summation of list of tuples. This kind of application is popular in web development domain. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this task can be performed.

Method #1 : Using list comprehension + zip()
The combination of above functionalities can be used to perform this particular task. In this, we iterate through the list using list comprehension and the summation across lists is performed with help of zip().

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Summation of two list of tuples 
# using list comprehension + zip() 
  
# initialize lists 
test_list1 = [(2, 4), (6, 7), (5, 1)] 
test_list2 = [(5, 4), (8, 10), (8, 14)] 
  
# printing original lists 
print("The original list 1 : " + str(test_list1)) 
print("The original list 2 : " + str(test_list2)) 
  
# Summation of two list of tuples 
# using list comprehension + zip() 
res = [(x[0] + y[0], x[1] + y[1]) for x, y in zip(test_list1, test_list2)] 
  
# printing result 
print("The Summation across lists is : " + str(res)) 

Output :

The original list 1 : [(2, 4), (6, 7), (5, 1)]
The original list 2 : [(5, 4), (8, 10), (8, 14)]
The Summation across lists is : [(7, 8), (14, 17), (13, 15)]

Method #2 : Using sum() + zip() + map()
This is yet another way to perform this task. This is similar to above method, the difference is that summation is performed by inbuilt function and extending logic to each element is done by map().

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 
# Summation of two list of tuples 
# using sum() + zip() + map() 
  
# initialize lists 
test_list1 = [(2, 4), (6, 7), (5, 1)] 
test_list2 = [(5, 4), (8, 10), (8, 14)] 
  
# printing original lists 
print("The original list 1 : " + str(test_list1)) 
print("The original list 2 : " + str(test_list2)) 
  
# Summation of two list of tuples 
# using sum() + zip() + map() 
res = [tuple(map(sum, zip(a, b))) for a, b in zip(test_list1, test_list2)] 
  
# printing result 
print("The Summation across lists is : " + str(res)) 

Output :

The original list 1 : [(2, 4), (6, 7), (5, 1)]
The original list 2 : [(5, 4), (8, 10), (8, 14)]
The Summation across lists is : [(7, 8), (14, 17), (13, 15)]

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