How would I make a variable that has the sum of two other variables in python?

You've got the right line in there, but you also have some extra stuff that isn't needed, which is probably messing up the answer that the challenge is looking for. Here's the code that will pass the challenge:

current_count = 14
planned = 5
upcoming_releases = 2
del planned
total = current_count + upcoming_releases

Notice how total is created after planned is deleted. It's always good to make sure that in code challenges, your new code goes below whatever code is already written (unless the challenge tells you otherwise)! But you had it right, you can add two variables together with the + symbol. Also, a side note, when you print something, make sure whatever you want printed is in parentheses directly after print, otherwise python won't understand what you're telling it to do. You don't need to print anything here, so you can delete that code. Example of proper syntax for printing:

#printing a variable
alpha = 'ABCDEF'
print(alpha)
#printing a string
print('ABCDEF')

Hello MARIA Quadr At first you got it wrong by assigning an integer(numbers ie: total = 14 + 2) to the variable total Delete total = 14 + 2 finally change your print method to print(total) so you code should look like this:

current_count = 14
upcoming_releases = 2
total = current_count + upcoming_releases
del planned
print(total)