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Chubasco Diranga <alpharulz@gmail.com> writes:

> Can anyone please help me with the following please?

Welcome!

Is this a homework assignment? It's okay to ask for help with those, but
we're not going to do the work for you.

> My question is in a while loop; how do l sum all the numbers in the
> given list (list_a)?

There is a built-in function to do that. Have you completed the Python
tutorial <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/>?

You may also want to participate in the ‘tutor’ forum for Python
<URL:https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> which is
specialised to help beginners in Python.

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