Exercise 5: Combine

A better way to combine the items of a list is by using a for loop that you write yourself.

Try writing your own version of combine in Python that takes in a list of numbers OR strings and returns the combined result.

Hint:think about what the + operator does for strings and for numbers.

>>> nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> strings = ["hello ", "my ", "name ", "is ", "someone?"] >>> combine(nums) 15 >>> combine(strings) "hello my name is someone?" 

You can test this function by using function number 5. Hint: For the most elegant solution, use recursion. The rough equivalent of "all but first of" in Python is[1:].