Adding items in a list (using loops?)

[Seneca260]

Your function is working but you need to call it with your list to get a result.
And beware not to name a variable "sum" as this is an inbuild python function
actually the one that does what you rebuild.

def sum_list(elements):
    total = 0
    for element in elements:
        total += element
    return total

broken_prices = [5, 3, 4, 5, 4] + [4]

print(sum_list(broken_prices))

# ==> 25

print(sum(broken_prices))

Thank you ThomasL and Auggie. This is exactly what I was trying to do! I find the element aspect of things a bit confusing, so I appreciate the help.

Thanks to everyone else who gave input. Sorry if I misplaced this. I wasn't sure if this should go in 'Homework' since this wasn't really homework, but rather something I was just trying to do on my own with code I used elsewhere.