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Python Request for help with type conversion

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CodingNovice

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# 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
 
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CodingNovice said:
# 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
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Python: 
# 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)

CodingNovice said:
Specifically, I am having great confusion with calling the string function. If anyone has suggestions, I will be most grateful.
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To call ths `string` function, you just wrap the variable you want to convert into a string in `str()` e.g `str(number)`.
 
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didlly said:
Python: 
# 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)`.
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Many thanks. I tried and failed to implement your suggestion. Please find attached a snapshot of the shell. What am I doing wrong?
 

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

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Hey,

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

Python: 
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 😀
 
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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
 

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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:-
Python: 
Savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#You need to do this

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

#Lose the caps :D
 
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Play Snayk 3+, higher dimensional snake game?
simong1993 said:
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:-
Python: 
Savings = "100"
print(str(savings))

#You need to do this

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

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

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simong1993 said:
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 🙂
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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. 🙂
 
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CodingNovice said:
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. 🙂
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Sorry! I thought wrong and have reset the code. I will try and see what happens.
 
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