L need help with something in my program

Python Help
1

it goes in a loop but l don’t know how to get it to add the same variable over and over again l don’t know if this sounds stupid or not but l looked all online and couldn’t find anything

my lines of code are below

while True:
number = input("please input first number you’d like: ")

try:
    first_number = float(number)
    
except ValueError:
    print("that's not a vaild number ")
    continue
    
finally:
    stop = input("would you like the equation to stop ")
        
    if stop == "yes":
        print(number)
        break
    elif stop == "no":
        continue
2

Hi,

You need to keep the previous result in a variable, then add the new number to it.

For example:

total = 0

while True:
    number = input("Please input a number: ")

    try:
        first_number = float(number)
    except ValueError:
        print("That's not a valid number")
        continue

    total += first_number

    stop = input("Would you like the equation to stop? ")

    if stop == "yes":
        print(total)
        break

The important part is total += first_number. It keeps adding each new number to the previous total.

Also, you probably don’t want to use finally here, because finally runs even when the conversion fails.

3

thanks Samuel