accumulate yields a cumulative sum (or product) of numbers.
accumulate
>>> import itertools as it >>> import operator >>> list(it.accumulate([1,2,3,4,5])) [1, 3, 6, 10, 15] >>> list(it.accumulate([1,2,3,4,5], func=operator.mul)) [1, 2, 6, 24, 120]