Calling a function to return a list of percentages

[Larz60+]

without generator:

print ("This is a tax calculator. Enter in the price and your item\n"
"and the program will calculate how much it costs with tax.")
 
# Create tax function that takes price and tax_rate as inputs and returns the total price
# def calculate_tax(price, start, end, increment):
#     for n in range(start, end, increment):
#         tax_rate = n * .01
#         tax = price * tax_rate
#         total = round((price + tax), 2)
#         yield n, tax, tax_rate, total

def calculate_tax(price, tax_rate):
    return (price * tax_rate) * .01

# float is a variable type for decimals
item = str(input("Please enter an item: "))
my_price = float(input("Price of the item $"))
for rate in [5, 10, 15, 20, 25]:
    tax = calculate_tax(my_price, rate)
    print('{}% tax on a {} costing ${:.2f} is ${:.2f} for a total of ${:.2f}'
          .format(rate, item, my_price, tax, my_price + tax))

test:

Output:
This is a tax calculator. Enter in the price and your item
and the program will calculate how much it costs with tax.
Please enter an item: choc
Price of the item $17.5
5% tax on a choc costing $17.50 is $0.88 for a total of $18.38
10% tax on a choc costing $17.50 is $1.75 for a total of $19.25
15% tax on a choc costing $17.50 is $2.62 for a total of $20.12
20% tax on a choc costing $17.50 is $3.50 for a total of $21.00
25% tax on a choc costing $17.50 is $4.38 for a total of $21.88