[Tutor] calculate the sum of a variable - python

[nookasree ponamala]

Thanks a lot Marc. This works now.
 
Sree.

--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] calculate the sum of a variable - python
To: "nookasree ponamala" <nookasree at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Wayne Werner" <waynejwerner at gmail.com>, tutor at python.org
Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 10:54 AM



On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:46 PM, nookasree ponamala <nookasree at yahoo.com> wrote:






Thanks for the reply Wayne, but still it is not working,
 
when I used int It throws the below error:

  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in summary
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <genexpr>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: "'"
 
I tried using float and the error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in summary
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <genexpr>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): '
 
Thanks,
Sree.



I played with it a bit and simplified things a (little) bit:

       b = (aline[3].strip('$'))
       t = (a, float(b))
       tot.append(t)
       print tot

You were converting the tuple to a string before adding it to the list; you don't need to do that, and it was concealing the real cause of your problem, which is that you either need to skip/get rid of the top line of your file, or write some error-handling code to deal with it.  Currently, you're trying to convert the string 'amt' into a number, and you just can't do that.



      
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