How do I add values that are in a python list without having to do it manually-CodePudding

How do i a values in a list.

Like lets say i have 5 numbers 1, 2, 6, 23, 5 and i want to store their total inside a variable without having to do it manually.

Because i will make the program let the user input their own values and i cant guess the values.

this is what i got when i searched it up

l = list(range(3))
l.append([3, 4, 5])
print(l)
# [0, 1, 2, 100, 'new', [3, 4, 5]]

CodePudding user response：

If you are trying to allow users to input things to the list, you can try

for i in range(num):
    list.append(int(input('Enter a number: ')))

where num is how many inputs you want

and then you can use Python sum() function to find the sum:

total = sum(list)

CodePudding user response：

Simple way:

total = sum(myList)

CodePudding user response：

What you need to do is to loop through all the numbers and calculate the total.

myList = [1, 2, 6, 23, 5]

total = 0

for number in myList:
    total = total   number

print(total)

Output

Alternative Method

myList = [1, 2, 6, 23, 5]
total = sum(myList)
print(total)

Output

I hope this answer's your question! If you need any clarifications just feel free to comment below ^-^ I'm here to help!