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Checking values

Great! Your shopping list is working. Let's quickly count how many items we have in our shopping list before building the final scaled version.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Python for Developers

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a variable called items_to_buy starting at 0, then increment it by 1 for each ingredient in your shopping_list.
  • Print both the shopping_list and the total number of items_to_buy.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Count how many items to buy
items_to_buy = ____

for item in shopping_list:
    items_to_buy ____ 1

# Display results
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