(7) Summing a number's digits

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Write a function named sumDigits which takes a number as input and returns the sum of the absolute value of each of the number's decimal digits. For example:

  sum_digits(10)  # Returns 1
  sum_digits(99)  # Returns 18
  sum_digits(-32) # Returns 5

Let's assume that all numbers in the input will be integer values.

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def sum_digits(number):
    number = str(number)
    total = 0
    
    if number[0] == '-':
        number = number[1:]
        
    for i in number:
        total += int(i)
        
    return total