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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:36:45 -0700
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On 8/31/2015 4:27 PM, Chubasco Diranga wrote:
> Can anyone please help me with the following please?
>
> My question is in a while loop; how do l sum all the numbers in the given list (list_a)?
>
> list_a = [8, 5, 2, 4]
> sum_a = 0 # for storing the sum of list_a
> i = 0 # for looping through the list_a# Use a while loop to sum all numbers in list_a# If you store the sums into sum_a
> print(sum_a) # should print 19

You should familiarize yourself with the language -- there's a really 
easy answer to this.

Review the tutorial at https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

Emile