#!/usr/bin/env python def sum_of_n(n): i = 0 result = [] count = abs(n) #-n if n < 0 else n while i <= count: sum = 0 for j in range(0, i+1): sum += j if n < 0: result.append(-sum) else: result.append(sum) i += 1 return result if __name__ == "__main__": print sum_of_n(0)