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i have tried everything, i am trying to build in a loop to my 2 functions which worked fine up until my latest sorti.<div><br></div><div>please have a look if you can..............<br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">def exchange(cash_in):</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> euro=1</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> dollar=1.35</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> base=50</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> if cash_in>base:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> totalreturn=cash_in*dollar</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> else:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> totalreturn=0</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> return totalreturn</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">def main():</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> amount=""</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> while amount<50:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> print 'Sorry, cannot convert an amount under ¤50 '</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> amount = input('how much do you want to change:')</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> else:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> total=exchange(amount)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> print 'Your exchange comes to: ',total</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">main()</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> </font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Traceback (most recent call last):</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> File "F:\VTOS ATHLONE\PYTHON_VTOS\foreign exchange\f_ex3.py", line 27, in <module></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> main()</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> File "F:\VTOS ATHLONE\PYTHON_VTOS\foreign exchange\f_ex3.py", line 19, in main</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> total=exchange(amount)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> File "F:\VTOS ATHLONE\PYTHON_VTOS\foreign exchange\f_ex3.py", line 7, in exchange</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> totalreturn=cash_in*dollar</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">>>> </font></div>
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