Now, make a function named summarize that also takes a list. It should return the string "The sum of X is Y.", replacing

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im really confused

functions.py

def add_list(lst) :
  result = 5
  for item in lst:
    result += item
    return result

Answer 1 · 2015-03-02T22:59:44Z

March 2, 2015 10:59pm

Task: **Now, make a function named summarize that also takes a list. It should return the string "The sum of X is Y.", replacing X with the list and Y with the list sum.

Your add_list() needs two corrections:

def add_list(lst) :
    result = 0 # <-- initialize to zero
    for item in lst:
        result += item
    return result # <-- outdent outside for for loop

You already have the ability to add a list in your add_list() function. Let's use it in the summarize() function.

def summarize(list):
    X = list
    Y = add_list(list)
    result = "The sum of {} is {}".format(X, Y)
    return result

Or, combining all this lines, it can be compressed to:

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

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