class ArithmeticSequence(): def __init__ (self, seq): self.seq = seq def sum(self): summed = len(self.seq) / 2 * (self.seq[0] + self.seq[-1]) return summed test_sub = [2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16] print(ArithmeticSequence(test_sub).sum()) print(sum(test_sub))