How to get a list of numbers as input and calculate the sum?

Question

mylist = int(raw_input(\'Enter your list: \'))    
total = 0    
for number in mylist:    
    total += number    
print \"The sum of the numbers is:\", total
         


        

Answer 1

if you want to store numbers in list, create list. also add a loop for user enters values. you can assign an input to break the loop or add a counter.

myList = []
counter = 0 
while counter<10: #change this to true for infinite (unlimited) loop. also remove counter variables
    num = raw_input("Enter numbers or (q)uit")
    if num == 'q': 
        break
    else:
        myList.append(int(num))
    counter +=1

print sum(myList)  

or without list

>>> while True:
...     num = raw_input("number or (q)uit")
...     if num == 'q': break
...     else:
...             total +=int(num)
... 

result

number or (q)uit4
number or (q)uit5
number or (q)uit6
number or (q)uit7
number or (q)uit8
number or (q)uit9
number or (q)uit9
number or (q)uitq
>>> total
48