Ok,I am new to programming. I made a loop that will count down from 50 no problem. However, I know I did it the long way by repeating the loop in text. Along with the count down I have to add user input numbers together 50 times and give a total. Thus the reason for the count down.

So how do I add the user inputs together and execute the same loop? Do I need to store each input? I know adding sum1 + sum2 + sum3 etc up to 50 is the long way. I tried using break and continue but it did not work the way I needed.

So in a nut shell I need to write a program that reads 50 numbers from user and prints out the sum

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sum = 0
for x in range(50,0,-1):
<tab>print 'iteration %s' % (x)
<tab>num = raw_input('Number please? ')
<tab>sum += int(num)

print 'Your sum is ':str(sum)

notes:
range(50,0,-1) will count down (you said count down)
sum += int(num) is the same as sum = sum + int(num), which accumulates your total sum.
I had to put <tab> in the code since Yahoo strips spaces at the start of lines.

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