Equivalent of Haskell scanl in python

Starting Python 3.8, and the introduction of assignment expressions (PEP 572) (:= operator), which gives the possibility to name the result of an expression, we can use a list comprehension to replicate a scan left operation:

acc = 0
scanned = [acc := acc + x for x in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
# scanned = [1, 3, 6, 10, 15]

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Or in a generic way, given a list, a reducing function and an initialized accumulator:

items = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
f = lambda acc, x: acc + x
accumulator = 0

we can scan items from the left and reduce them with f:

scanned = [accumulator := f(accumulator, x) for x in items]
# scanned = [1, 3, 6, 10, 15]

You can use this, if its more elegant:

def scanl(f, base, l):
    for x in l:
        base = f(base, x)
        yield base

Use it like:

import operator
list(scanl(operator.add, 0, range(1,11)))

Python 3.x has itertools.accumulate(iterable, func= operator.add). It is implemented as below. The implementation might give you ideas:

def accumulate(iterable, func=operator.add):
    'Return running totals'
    # accumulate([1,2,3,4,5]) --> 1 3 6 10 15
    # accumulate([1,2,3,4,5], operator.mul) --> 1 2 6 24 120
    it = iter(iterable)
    total = next(it)
    yield total
    for element in it:
        total = func(total, element)
        yield total