Need to create simple iterative program

[dmehling]

I am a novice to Python and I'm trying to create a simple program to perform an iterative function. I want the program to take a number (let's call it x), add a number, and square the result. Then, I want to replace x with the result and perform the addition and squaring operations once again. I want to keep feeding that new result back into the equation. I need to know how I can do this and how I tell the program how many times I want it to iterate. I'm using version 3.1.1.

[ZekeDragon]

def iterate(x, y, iterations):
    for unusedvariable in range(iterations):
        x = (x + y) * (x + y)

    return x

That should do it.