shopping =[]
count = 0
how_many =input("how many items of shopping do you have? ")
how_many =int(how_many)
for item_number in range(how_many):
    item = input("what is the item? "+ str(item_number)+"? ")
    shopping.append(item)
    count = count +1
print(shopping)
print ("You have " + str(count)+" items in your shopping list")