Python Program to Find the Total Sum of a Nested List

[menator01]

I don't know that i would use range on the list.
All though there are other ways but, maybe like this

mylist = [5,[5, 3, 3],5,5,5] # List of numbers

def sum_nested_list(mylist):
    # set the finction variable
    total = 0
    # Loop through the list checking for other list
    for num in mylist:
        if type(num) == list: # If a list is found, get the sum and add to total
            total += sum(num)
        else:
            total += num # else add the num to total
    return total # return the total

print(sum_nested_list(mylist))

Output:
31