Ok, I don't know how to change add to accept an arbitrary number of arguments (I'm pretty new) and as for total = 1 idk but it worked for other versions of this (multiplication), and figured it might work for this one, do you have any tips on what a better number might be for the total to equal?
On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 14:37, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > On 2020-11-08 at 19:00:34 +0000, > Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 13:50:19 -0500, Quentin Bock <qberz2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Errors say that add takes 1 positional argument but 3 were given? Does > this > > > limit how many numbers I can have or do I need other variables? > > > Here is what I have: > > > def add(numbers): > > > total = 1 > > > for x in numbers: > > > total += x > > > return total > > > print(add(1999, -672, 84)) > > > > Your function "add" expects a single argument that is a list > > of numbers. You're passing it three arguments, each a number. > > Try add([1999, -672, 84]). > > Or change add to accept an arbitrary number of arguments and collect > them into a tuple: > > def add(*numbers): > # then the rest of the function as before > > BTW, why initialize total to 1? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
