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expenses =['Grocery-200.00', 'Gas-100.78', \
           'Rent-1200.00', 'Water-23.34', \
        'Vacation-356.89', 'Phone-123.00']
Chris
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Just split on the "-", cast to float and sum:

sum([float(x.split("-")[1]) for x in expenses])
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  • You can pass a generator expression rather than a list comprehension in a case like this. :) – Chris Oct 03 '22 at 19:23