Hi Christopher!

First off, you need to provide a variable for the add_list function instead of the actual list. For example, to get past the first task in that challenge, you would want to do something like this:

def add_list(my_list):
  total = 0
  for item in my_list:
    total += item
  return total

See how we have a variable there in the add_list function instead of the actual list?

Try working from there and see if you can get the second task.

Ok, I get the the 1st task done, however...I'm just copying your code and running it. Not really understanding the why. The greyed out code has a list as an example. Don't I want to use Python list with it?

However I'm already stuck at the 2nd task with a syntax error.

I've set the 2nd function, def summarize(my_list). Is this correct? Do I create a new argument with the same name?

def summarize(my_list): print("the sum of {} is {}".format(len(my_list)):

Here is my code for task 2:

def add_list(my_list):
  total = 0
  for item in my_list:
    total += item
  return total

def summarize(my_list): 
  return "The sum of {} is {}".format((str(my_list)), add_list(my_list))

For this task, you can go ahead and use the same list variable. What I did different here is that I want to return the value of the function instead of printing it to the console/screen. In addition, the task is asking for the first replacement to be the string version of the list (str(my_list)) and the second replacement being the total of the summed list, where you can actually just use the function you wrote in task 1 (add_list(my_list)). Make sense? Let me know if you have any questions!

I got it to work, however I just copied your code to get it to work.

For some reason, I can't code it up from my head, however if I see someone's else's work, I get it. I don't understand why.

I kind of wish there were more examples that we could do to build up to the challenges.