Adding the numbers created in a while loop python

Question

repeat1=0 
while repeat1!=x1:
    fini=ord(dlist[repeat1])
    repeat1=repeat1+1
    print (fini)
sum_of_all=sum(fini)
print(sum_of_all)

i want to add the numbers that are made from the variable fini. python gives me an error saying: 'int' is not iterable.

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15 19:16:34Z

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You need to build a list of those numbers. You are instead just assigning each number to fini without doing anything with the preceding numbers:

values = []
while repeat1 != x1:
    fini = ord(dlist[repeat1])
    values.append(fini)
    repeat1 = repeat1 + 1

sum_of_all = sum(values)

You may as well just sum the values in the loop however:

sum_of_all = 0
while repeat1 != x1:
    fini = ord(dlist[repeat1])
    sum_of_all += fini
    repeat1 = repeat1 + 1

print(sum_of_all)

answered Jun 15, 2015 at 19:16

Martijn Pieters

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