How to get a list of numbers as input and calculate the sum?

Question

mylist = int(raw_input(\'Enter your list: \'))    
total = 0    
for number in mylist:    
    total += number    
print \"The sum of the numbers is:\", total
         


        

Answer 1

Correct way of doing the same is:

separator = " " #Define the separator by which you are separating the input integers.
# 1,2,3,4    => separator = ","
# 1, 2, 3, 4 => separator = ", "
# 1 2 3 4    => separator = " "

mylist = map(int, raw_input("Enter your list : ").split(separator)) 

print "The sum of numbers is: "+str(sum(mylist))

To find the sum you need to convert the space separated characters into int individually as done above using map function.