Sum of positive (8kyu) [Python]

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Description:

You get an array of numbers, return the sum of all of the positives ones.

Example [1,-4,7,12] => 1 + 7 + 12 = 20

Note: if there is nothing to sum, the sum is default to 0.

Solution 1

Let's use reduce method to solve this task. It executes a reducer function (that you provide) on each element of the array, resulting in single output value. It is almost a textbook example for reducer.

import functools

def positive_sum(arr):
    return functools.reduce(lambda accumulator, current: accumulator + (current if current > 0 else 0), arr, 0)

Solution 2

Another approach will be to loop over the array and sum all positive numbers.

def positive_sum(arr):
    sum = 0
    for number in arr:
        if number > 0:
            sum += number
    return sum

Solution 3

Or to use sum(). This is an inbuilt function in python that adds all the elements in list, set and tuples and returns the value.

def positive_sum(arr):
    return sum(number for number in arr if number > 0)