How to code in python something that will take your inputs of items bought and add them with tax

Question

Calculates the total including sales tax (8.875%) of a shopping trip.

Create a total variable and a tax variable. Total the items calculated with tax. Be sure to test if the price is above zero.

Continues to prompt the user to enter prices until they are done. Hint: enter a while loop until the user types ‘done’ at the prompt.

Hint: Since we don't know how many times the loop will execute, it makes the most sense to use a 'while' loop. You will need to prompt the user in 2 different places. Once outside of the loop and again as the last line inside the while loop.

Answer 1

Best to create a function that returns the value:

Calculates the total including sales tax (8.875%) of a shopping trip.

def function_name(item_prices):

Create a total variable and a tax variable. Total the items calculated with tax. Be sure to test if the price is above zero.

total = 0# want to initialize to zero

price = input("Please enter a price") # this will need to be converted to an int or float

if price > 0: # Check if greater than 0, otherwise there could be issues with adding negative numbers

total += price

Continues to prompt the user to enter prices until they are done. Hint: enter a while loop until the user types ‘done’ at the prompt.

while price != "done":

price = input("Please enter a price")