Project Euler 6

euler6.py

"""I took the liberty of changing two variable names that happen to shadow
   builtin Python functions (sum and str), but the code is otherwise
   unedited from what the crew produced in the meeting today.
"""


def squareOfSums(numbers):
    #Bob
    n = sum(numbers)
    return n ** 2


def sum_powers(lst, power):
    #Ilya
    series = [x ** power for x in lst]
    return sum(series)


def sumOfBoth(sums, squares):
    # Jeff
    result = abs(sums - squares)
    print result


if __name__ == '__main__':
    SumSquare = sum_powers([x for x in range(1, 101)], 2)
    SquareSum = squareOfSums([x for x in range(1, 101)])
    sumOfBoth(SumSquare, SquareSum)