[Tutor] sum() function

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:40 PM Olsen, Avalow Y
<Yuanyuan.A.Olsen at healthpartners.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I am trying to sum up the integer numbers in a list like this:
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> numbers = [1,2,3, 4,5,1,4,5]
>
> total = sum(numbers)
>
> print(total)
>
> _______________________________________________
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-23-094ed0d3ab6c> in <module>
>       4 numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,1,4,5]
>       5
> ----> 6 total = sum(numbers)
>       7 print(total)
>       8
>
> TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>
>
I did this and it worked fine:
>>> numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,1,4,5]
>>> total = sum(numbers)
>>> print(total)
25

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> Don't understand why it doesn't work. I am using Anaconda Jupyter Notebook Python 3
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> Please help.
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>
>
> Thank you for your help in advance!
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> Ava
>
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