This is my whack at it, I can't wait to hear about it being the wrong big o
notation!
numbers=[]
while len(numbers) < 10:
try:
chip = int(input('please enter an integer: '))
except ValueError:
print('that is not a number, try again')
else:
numbers.append(chip)
print(sum(numbers))
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:23 AM Schachner, Joseph <
joseph.schach...@teledyne.com> wrote:
> Well of course that doesn't work. For starters, x is an int or a float
> value. After the loop It holds the 10th value. It might hold 432.7 ...
> It is not a list.
> The default start for range is 0. The stop value, as you already know, is
> not part of the range. So I will use range(10).
>
> In the second loop, I think you thought x would be a list and you I'm sure
> you wanted to do
> for y in x:
> but instead you did
> for y in range(x)
> and remember x might be a very large number. So the second loop would
> loop that many times, and each pass it would assign y (which has first
> value of 0 and last value of whatever x-1 is) to sum. Even though its name
> is "sum" it is not a sum. After the loop it would hold x-1. You wanted to
> do sum += y. Or sum = sum + y. I prefer the former, but that could
> reflect my history as a C and C++ programmer.
>
> And then you printed y, but you really want to print sum (assuming that
> sum was actually the sum).
>
> Putting all of the above together, you want to do this:
>
> vallist =[] # an empty list, so we can append to it
> for n in range(10):
> x = input("Insert a number: ") # get 1 number into x
> vallist.append(x) # append it to our list
>
> # Now vallist holds 10 values
>
> sum = 0 # No need to start sum as a float, in Python if we add a float
> to an integer the result will be float. It doesn't matter in the program if
> sum is int or float.
> for y in vallist:
> sum += y
>
> print( "The sum is: ", sum)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ^Bart <gabriele1nos...@hotmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 6:30 AM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: The sum of ten numbers inserted from the user
>
> I thought something like it but doesn't work...
>
> for n in range(1, 11):
> x = input("Insert a number: ")
>
> for y in range(x):
> sum = y
>
> print ("The sum is: ",y)
>
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