[Tutor] help with integers

[Alan Gauld]

"Ciera Jones" <cjo1555 at gmail.com> wrote

> When I enter myvar= raw_input ("Please excuse a number of movies: ")
> and I try and convert it to an integer it gives me an error message.
> I put in:
> movietotal=  int("myvar")* 3 and I get an error message

Don't put quotes around the variable name.
Python is trying to convert the string "myvar" to an int, which it 
can't.

BTW When posting it is best to send the code plus entire error 
message,
it greatly helps us debug the problem.


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