An example on using arbitrary number of arguments with Python 3

msum_map.py

"""
    (c) 2017 
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     This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
"""
import functools as ft

# Example on using arbitrary number of arguments
def msum(*nums):
    '''
      msum takes arbitrary number of 
      arguments and sum them ups.
    '''
    add = lambda x, y : x+y
    return(ft.reduce(add, nums))
    
    
msum(2,6,7)       # 15
msum(8,6,9,20,31) # 74