numpy element sum privous
>>> a
array([[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6]])
>>> np.cumsum(a,axis=0) # sum over rows for each of the 3 columns
array([[1, 2, 3],
[5, 7, 9]])
>>> np.cumsum(a,axis=1) # sum over columns for each of the 2 rows
array([[ 1, 3, 6],
[ 4, 9, 15]])