Beginner Programmer Question

[Michael Goettsche]

kydavis77 at gmail.com wrote:
> I am doing alot of reading and trying to teach myself how to program.
> I can not figure out how to make "Write a program that continually
> reads in numbers from the user and adds them together until the sum
> reaches 100." this work. If someone could show me the correct code so i
> can learn from that it would be much appreciated. Thanks
> 

sum = 0
while sum <= 100:
         number = int(raw_input("Enter a number\n"))
         sum = sum + number
print "Finally there"

As long as the sum is <= 100 the program asks for a number and adds it 
to the sum variable. If the variable is >= 100, it exits and outputs the 
string.