[Tutor] Python type confusion?

[C Smith]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 4:13 PM, C Smith <illusiontechniques at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Ken Hammer <kfh777 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> A simple "type" problem?
>>
>> The following code works as a py file with the XX'd lines replacing the two later "raw_input" lines.
>> Why do the "raw_input" lines yield a TypeError: 'str' object is not callable?  Same result if I use/omit
>> the parens around the poly tuple.
>>
>> #### evaluate a polynomial as formula for a defined function
>> ##poly = (0.0, 0.0, 5.0, 9.3, 7.0)    # f(x) = 7x^4 + 9.3x^3 + 5x^2
>> ##x = -13
>> poly = raw_input("Type, 0.0-n ,")        ## these do not work in place of above
>> x = raw_input("Type your val of x, ")    ## 'str' object is not callable?
> y = int(x) #see below
>
>>
>> total = 0.0
>> for i in range(len(poly)):
>>         totalTerm = poly[i]* (x ** i)
> Here you would get "unsupported operand type" since you are getting
> the ith power of a string.
EDIT: change "x" to "y"
>
>
>>         total += totalTerm
>>         print "totalTerm ", i , totalTerm
>> print "Equation Value", total
>>
>> #### Good answer follows:
>> totalTerm  0 0.0
>> totalTerm  1 0.0
>> totalTerm  2 845.0
>> totalTerm  3 -20432.1
>> totalTerm  4 199927.0
>> Equation Value 180339.9
>>>>>
>> thanks,  Ken Hammer
>>
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