Putting the "Fun" back in "Function"

Hello Brett :)

You did all great! The only thing missing is that you must put curly braces followed by a format function in your summarize function answer just as Brittany explained. The code should be like this:

def add_list(list_1):
  total = 0  
  for items in list_1:
    total+=items #it's the same as total = total + items
  return total

def summarize(list_1):
  return "The sum of {} is {}.".format(list_1,add_list(list_1)) #the value of list_1 will show where the first {} are and add_list(list_1) on the second {}

Another thing is that I recommend you to change your variables "list" and "sum" as they are the built-in types for list and sum. You can realize that when you type them in the workspaces as they turn "black" instead of "green" or "red" instead of "blue" in the code challenge.

When you want to stick values into a string you use some thing like "Hello {0}".format(name).

You put your string and then put curly braces where you want to put a value in. You then add .format followed by the arguments you want to pass in. The number in the curly braces represents the index of an item in the format arguments list.

So you are going to want to replace X and Y with curly braces that have indices in them. The indices are going to represent the list and sum values you pass into the arguments for format.

Hope that helps!