Python List with Total and Average

[mcnhscc39]

In for bal in accountBalance:, bal is independent of accoutBalance, so changing bal does not change accountBalance. So at the end, all the values are still 0. I would redo the first loop as:

accountBalance = []
for value in range(5):
    accountBalance.append(float(input('Enter value: ')))

I realized that the way I wrote it, I created the list and then created a separate loop to total the list. However, since the list was already created in the previous loop, there was nothing to total up. I rewrote it this way before seeing your comment, though yours would obviously work as well, this way worked just fine for the simple tasks I was asking. For more complicated lists and processing I think I should use your method.

#Create List with user input
accountBalance = [0] * 5
total = 0
for bal in accountBalance:
    bal = float(input("Enter"))
    total += bal

#Procces list for total and average


average = total / len(accountBalance)
print("Total: ", total)
print("Average: ", round(average, 2))