Python: Assign a number to a string

March 28, 2022

I wrote a "shopping cart programm" which can add, remove, show and clear the content of the shopping cart.

Now I want to be able to remove content from the cart with an index number.
For example: If I wanted to add an apple to my cart and list the content of my cart it would looks something like this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9kFpv.png

Now I want to be able to remove a content of the cart with the indexnumber infront of the content. Im a complete noob in python so excuse me if im playing dumb.

# import necessary functions
from IPython.display import clear_output
# global list variable
cart = [ ]

# create function to add items to cart
def addItem(item):
          clear_output( )
          cart.append(item)
          print( "{} has been added.".format(item) )
# create function to remove items from cart
def removeItem(item):
           clear_output( )
           try:
            cart.remove(item)
            print( "{} has been removed.".format(item) )
           except:
            print("Sorry we could not remove that item.")
# create a function to show items in cart
def showCart( ):
           clear_output( )
           if cart:
            print("Here is your cart:")
           else:
            print("Your cart is empty.")
           for index, item in enumerate (cart):
            print( "{}) {}".format(index + 1, item) )
# create function to clear items from cart
def clearCart( ):
           clear_output( )
           cart.clear( )
           print("Your cart is empty.")
# create main function that loops until the user quits
def main( ):
           done = False
           while not done:
            ans = input("quit/add/remove/show/clear: ").lower( )
           # base case
            if ans == "quit":
                        print("Thanks for using our program.")
                        done = True
            elif ans == "add":
                      item = input("What would you like to add? ").title( )
                      addItem(item)
            elif ans == "remove":
                      showCart( )
                      item = input("What item would you like to remove? Type a number: ")
                      removeItem(item)
            elif ans == "show":
                      showCart( )
            elif ans == "clear":
                      clearCart( )
            else:
               print("Sorry that was not an option.")
main( )

This is my current code. Right now when I want to remove an item from the cart, I can only do it with writing "remove" and then the name of the item. Which looks something like this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/zi4Ez.png
But I want to be able to remove an item based on the indexnumber.