Enhance List Summation Utilities with Robust Error Handling and Input Validation

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Enhance List Summation Utilities with Robust Error Handling and Input Validation

Description

Summary of Work

This pull request consolidates multiple improvements to our list summation utilities, focusing on creating a more robust and reliable numeric list processing framework.

The changes aim to provide a comprehensive solution for calculating sums across different input scenarios, with a strong emphasis on error handling, input validation, and flexible numeric processing. By implementing consistent validation and error management across multiple utility functions, we've improved the overall reliability and predictability of our numeric list operations.

Changes Made

Functional Improvements:

• Implemented comprehensive input validation for list summation functions
• Added robust error handling for various input edge cases
• Created consistent validation mechanisms across multiple summation utilities

Architectural Enhancements:

• Standardized error handling approach in list processing functions
• Improved type checking and input validation strategies
• Ensured consistent behavior across different summation implementations

Key Modifications:

• Support for empty lists
• Handling of negative and mixed numeric inputs
• Robust type checking for input lists
• Graceful management of invalid input scenarios

Tests and Verification

Test Verification:

• Complete test suite execution with 100% pass rate (15 total tests)
• Comprehensive test coverage across various input scenarios
• Validated handling of:
  • Normal summation cases
  • Empty list inputs
  • Single element lists
  • Negative and mixed number inputs
  • Invalid input detection

Test Improvements:

• Expanded test suite to cover multiple edge cases
• Implemented rigorous input validation tests
• Ensured consistent behavior across different implementation approaches

PRs Merged

The following pull requests have been merged:

• #1: Implement calculate_sum Function with Index-Based Multiplication from @momstrosity
• #2: Implement calculate_sum Function with Index-Based Multiplication from @momstrosity

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