What’s the function like sum() but for multiplication? product()?

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Actually, Guido vetoed the idea: http://bugs.python.org/issue1093

But, as noted in that issue, you can make one pretty easily:

from functools import reduce # Valid in Python 2.6+, required in Python 3
import operator

reduce(operator.mul, (3, 4, 5), 1)

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