A day at the supermarket (9/13) - something of value

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my initial code :

prices = {“banana”: 4,“apple”: 2,“orange”: 1.5,“pear”: 3}

stock = {“banana”: 6, “apple”: 0, “orange”: 32, “pear”: 15}

for fruit in prices:
print fruit
print "price: " + str(prices[fruit])
print "stock: " + str(stock[fruit])
print

for fruit in prices:
total = 0
total =total + prices[fruit] * stock[fruit]

print total

this returned the value of total as 0.

however, when i did this -

total = 0
for fruit in prices:
total =total + prices[fruit] * stock[fruit]

print total

it worked properly.
why does this happen?

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Because the variable is initialized before the loop. In the earlier example it is zeroed out inside the loop, so cannot accumulate.

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