count = 0
shopping = []

how_many = input("how many shopping items ? ")
how_many = int(how_many)

for item_number in range(how_many):
    item = input("what is item number " + str(item_number) + "? ")
    shopping.append(item)
    count = count + 1
    total_items = str(count)
print(shopping)

print("You have " + total_items + " items in your shopping list")