[Tutor] reading strings and calculating totals

[Richard Dillon]

When I tried

total = 0
with open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/numbers.txt', 'r') as infile:
   for line in infile:
       total += float(line)
print(total)

Python returned         "ValueError: could not convert string to float: "

Richard

On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> total = 0
> with open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/numbers.txt', 'r') as infile:
>    for line in infile:
>        total += float(line)
> print(total)

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