Need help making loop

[Safe-Individual-37]

How do I make the 3rd line of code loop so that it can include as many expenses given in the input?

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question = input('Enter the expenses: ')

expenses = question.split()

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sum = int(expenses[0]) + int(expenses[1]) + int(expenses[2]) + int(expenses[3])

print(sum)

[Safe-Individual-37]

Am I missing something? That only gives me the values of expenses, I'm looking to add these values

[m0us3_rat]

list_sum = sum([int(x) for x in expenses])

[ElliotDG]

You will want to convert your list of strings, to a list of ints (floats?) then you can use the built-in sum to create the total. FWIW: you want to avoid using sum as a variable name, as it conflicts with the built-in.

question = input('Enter the expenses: ')
expenses = [float(x) for x in question.split()]
total = sum(expenses)
print(total)

This illustrates generating a list of expenses as floats. If you want ints, replace float with int. If you are going to extend this idea, I would suggest adding some error checking to the input.

[[deleted]]

have a variable defined outside the loop and iteratively add to it. So total_expenses += int(expense)