Dictionaries, hurricane analysis

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Update Recorded Damages

conversion = {“M”: 1000000,
“B”: 1000000000}

updated_damages =

test function by updating damages

for entry in damages:
if entry != “Damages not recorded”:
numbers =
for letter in entry:
if letter != “M” and letter != “B”:
numbers.append(letter)
else:
number = “”.join(numbers)
number = number * conversion[letter]
updated_damages.append(number)
else:
updated_damages.append(entry)

print(updated_damages)

When I run this code, I don’t get any errors but nothing prints to the screen. What am I doing wrong, what’s going on?

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This line is making the issue.
You can’t multiply the number string by a integer.
Put it in a float() and everything will be alright

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Thank you so much!

Don’t suppose you know what I’m doing wrong here do you? I keep getting a syntax error but it won’t tell me specifically where the syntax error is.

# 2 
# Create a Table

# Create and view the hurricanes dictionary
hurricanes = {}

for i in names:
  hurricanes[i]=("Name": names[i], "Month": months[i], "Year": years[i], "Max Sustained Wind": max_sustained_winds[i], "Areas Affected": areas_affected[i], "Damage": updated_damages[i], "Deaths": deaths[i])

print(hurricanes)
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You’re welcome,
firstly the syntax error, tuples are unable to save key-value pairs and you should use curly brackets instead of parentheses after

hurricanes[i]=

second error is you are using names list values as index of other lists!
use this code instead

for i in range(len(names)):

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