Python Request for help with type conversion

[CodingNovice]

# Definition of savings and result
savings = 100
result = 100 * 1.10 ** 7

# Fix the printout
print("I started with $" + savings + " and now have $" + result + ". Awesome!")

# Definition of pi_string
pi_string = "3.1415926"

# Convert pi_string into float: pi_float

 

[CodingNovice]

Specifically, I am having great confusion with calling the string function. If anyone has suggestions, I will be most grateful.

 

[skifli]

# Definition of savings and result
savings = 100
result = 100 * 1.10 ** 7

# Fix the printout
print("I started with $" + savings + " and now have $" + result + ". Awesome!")

# Definition of pi_string
pi_string = "3.1415926"

# Convert pi_string into float: pi_float

# Definition of savings and result
savings = 100
result = 100 * 1.10 ** 7

# Fix the printout
print("I started with $" + savings + " and now have $" + result + ". Awesome!")

# Definition of pi_string
pi_string = "3.1415926"

# Convert pi_string into float: pi_float
pi_float = float(pi_string)

Specifically, I am having great confusion with calling the string function. If anyone has suggestions, I will be most grateful.

To call ths `string` function, you just wrap the variable you want to convert into a string in `str()` e.g `str(number)`.

 

[CodingNovice]

# Definition of savings and result
savings = 100
result = 100 * 1.10 ** 7

# Fix the printout
print("I started with $" + savings + " and now have $" + result + ". Awesome!")

# Definition of pi_string
pi_string = "3.1415926"

# Convert pi_string into float: pi_float
pi_float = float(pi_string)

To call ths `string` function, you just wrap the variable you want to convert into a string in `str()` e.g `str(number)`.

Many thanks. I tried and failed to implement your suggestion. Please find attached a snapshot of the shell. What am I doing wrong?

 

[skifli]

Many thanks. I tried and failed to implement your suggestion. Please find attached a snapshot of the shell. What am I doing wrong?

What do they want converted into a string?

 

[CodingNovice]

What do they want converted into a string?

Many thanks for your ongoing generosity and patience. There was a directive to call savings. I did so and called result, too, since their syntax seems equivalent to my naive eyes. What am I failing to grasp? Again, many thanks for your ongoing generosity and patience.

 

[CodingNovice]

Many thanks for your ongoing generosity and patience. There was a directive to call savings. I did so and called result, too, since their syntax seems equivalent to my naive eyes. What am I failing to grasp? Again, many thanks for your ongoing generosity and patience.

I see the shell displays no error at bottom. Are they being inconsistent?

 

[simong1993]

Hey,

So that error is correct 🙂 what you should be doing is :-

Savings = str(100)

#or

Savings = "100"

#or

print(str(Savings))

putting " " around something turns that into a string where as 100 would be a int. You also cannot turn a variable into a string or a int but you can convert what ever you are putting inside the variable into a str or int.

Hope this makes sense 😀

 

[CodingNovice]

Hello, simong1993 --

Please find the two attachments which demonstrate whatever it is I did wrong this time. If you have time to disabuse me of my ignorance and misunderstandings, I will of course be most grateful.

Many thanks,

Coding Novice

 

[simong1993]

This one may be partly my fault lol. With python she is very picky lol Savings and savings are two diffrent varibles. In your instance you are doing this:-

Savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#You need to do this

savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#Lose the caps :D

 

[CodingNovice]

This one may be partly my fault lol. With python she is very picky lol Savings and savings are two diffrent varibles. In your instance you are doing this:-

Savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#You need to do this

savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#Lose the caps :D

Again, many thanks. Python is still being picky; please see the attachment. I look forward to being enlightened again.

 

[simong1993]

Thats not a python issue, restart the code so its back to how you started then make the changes. you must have changed something it didnt want you too 🙂

 

[CodingNovice]

Thats not a python issue, restart the code so its back to how you started then make the changes. you must have changed something it didnt want you too 🙂

Again, many thanks. I do not think I can restart the exercise, at least so far as I can see. That said, I deleted a hash before print and ended up with another line in the shell. This one reads: "I started with $100 and now have $100 * 1.10 ** 7. Awesome!". I will email the website and ask about restarting the code. 🙂

 

[CodingNovice]

Again, many thanks. I do not think I can restart the exercise, at least so far as I can see. That said, I deleted a hash before print and ended up with another line in the shell. This one reads: "I started with $100 and now have $100 * 1.10 ** 7. Awesome!". I will email the website and ask about restarting the code. 🙂

Sorry! I thought wrong and have reset the code. I will try and see what happens.

 

[CodingNovice]

Sorry! I thought wrong and have reset the code. I will try and see what happens.

Many thanks, simong1993! 🙂

 

[simong1993]

You very welcome 😀