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Frank Millman
frank at chagford.com
Tue Jan 28 05:52:00 EST 2020
On 2020-01-28 12:14 PM, L A Smit wrote:
> Please help me with this.
>
> squares =input("\nSquares: ")
>
> print(float((squares) *float(.15)) *(1.3))
>
> Cant print answer.
>
> print(float((squares) * float(.15)) *(1.3))
> TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'
>
You have some superfluous brackets around 'squares' and '1.3', which
hinder readability.
Remove them and you get -
float(squares * float(.15)) * 1.3
Now you can see that you have the brackets in the wrong place - you are
trying to multiply 'squares', which at this stage is still a string, by
float(.15).
You can multiply a string by an integer, but not by a float -
>>> 'abc' * 3
'abcabcabc'
>>>
>>> 'abc' * 1.5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'
>>>
You probably meant
float(squares) * float(.15)
or more simply
float(squares) * .15
HTH
Frank Millman
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