Accepting user input for tickets and tips I've done tutorials as well as searches. I need assistance in simplifying this code. Please don't do it for me- instead inform me of what, where and why you are trying to simplify or write less code. I'm already working on an if loop to exit on enter. This is just version 3 for me.

## Program gets the date, Employee ID, and amounts.  
## It then places them into a text file which can be ported to excel.

## Get Date
import datetime
date = str(datetime.date.today())

## Get Employee I.D.
empnum = raw_input('Please enter Employee Number\n')

## Lists for the Users input.
amnt = []
amntt =[]

## Get Users Input and add to the appropriate list
num1 = raw_input('Please enter Ticket amount.\n')
amnt.append(num1)
numt1 = raw_input('Please enter tip amount.\n')
amntt.append(numt1)

num2 = raw_input('Please enter Ticket amount.\n')
amnt.append(num2)
numt2 = raw_input('Please enter tip amount.\n')
amntt.append(numt2)

num3 = raw_input('Please enter Ticket amount.\n')
amnt.append(num3)
numt3 = raw_input('Please enter tip amount.\n')
amntt.append(numt3)

num4 = raw_input('Please enter Ticket amount.\n')
amnt.append(num4)
numt4 = raw_input('Please enter tip amount.\n')
amntt.append(numt4)
There's no such thing as an "If" loop, but perhaps you meant a While loop? That is exactly what you need. Otherwise this looks like a pretty good start.

Next you might consider:


adding some error checking:


is the value entered a number?
What happens if the user includes currency signs?
what happens if the user enters nothing?
Is the employee number a real employee number?
what happens if the user enters a sentence instead of a number?

Are there always exactly 4 tickets or can there be more/less?