shopping cost

#Ask how many items of shopping are needed
shopping = []
how_many = input ("How many items of shopping do you have?")
how_many = int(how_many)
total = 0
#Collect items and store in a list/ loop/ and print items
for item_number in range(how_many):
  item = input("what is the item number" + str(item_number) + "?")
  shopping.append(item)
print (shopping)

print ("Now lets calculate how much it will cost you")
total_cost = 0
for item in shopping:
  item_cost=input("how much is the item " + item)
  total_cost=total_cost+float(item_cost)

print("the total cost of your shopping is  $" +  str(total_cost))