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ctogden
ctogden

Reputation: 37

How do I add five numbers from user input in Python?

As a practice exercise, I am trying to get five numbers from a user and return the sum of all five number using a while loop. I managed to gather the five numbers, but the sum is not provided by my code (I get a number, but it is always double the last number). I believe the issue is with my use of +=.

x = 0
while x < 5:
    x += 1
    s = int(raw_input("Enter a number: "))
    s += s
print s

Upvotes: 1

Views: 50516

Answers (4)

Max Shawabkeh
Max Shawabkeh

Reputation: 38603

Gruszczy already solved your main problem, but here is some advice relevant to your code.

First, it's easier to do a for loop rather than keep track of iterations in a while:

s = 0
for i in range(5):
    s += int(raw_input('Enter a number: '))

Second, you can simplify it using the built-in sum function:

s = sum(int(raw_input('Enter a number: ')) for i in range(5))

Third, both of the above will fail if the user enters invalid input. You should add a try block to take care of this:

s = 0
for i in range(5):
    try:
        s += int(raw_input('Enter a number: '))
    except ValueError:
        print 'Invalid input. Counting as a zero.'

Or if you want to force 5 valid numbers:

round = 0
s = 0
while round < 5:
    try:
        s += int(raw_input('Enter a number: '))
    except ValueError:
        print 'Invalid input.'
    else:
        round += 1

Upvotes: 12

gruszczy
gruszczy

Reputation: 42168

This should be better.

x = 0
s = 0
while x < 5:
    x += 1
    s += int(raw_input("Enter a number: "))
print s

You were putting one of the results on to the sum of all results and lost the previous ones.

Upvotes: 8

vidit
vidit

Reputation: 1

you could do this also

print ("enter input number : ")

input1 = int(raw_input())

sum1 = 0

for y in range(0,input1+1):
       sum1 = sum1 + y
print ("the sum is " + str(sum1))

Upvotes: 0

Simon K Bhatta4ya
Simon K Bhatta4ya

Reputation: 1047

Adding str or int by user_input & then printing the result - Adding 2 or more no's from users input

example from the abv link

'''Two numeric inputs, explicit sum'''

x = int(input("Enter an integer: "))
y = int(input("Enter another integer: "))
sum = x+y
sentence = 'The sum of {} and {} is {}.'.format(x, y, sum)
print(sentence)

Upvotes: 0

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