shopping = []

how_many = input("How many items of shopping do you need? ")
how_many = int(how_many)

for item_number in range(how_many):
    item = input("What is item number " + str(item_number +1) + "? ")
    # item_number starts at 0, most people start counting at 1;
    # even computer programmers, most of the time
    shopping.append(item)

print(shopping)