FAQ: Learn Python - Python Syntax - ValueError

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The page would not accept 10.0 as an answer when you bring “big_string” as it was a float, it wanted a definitive 10 to let me proceed, I couldn’t figure out how to do this as “float_1” and “float_2” are obviously both floats.

When I clicked “show me the answer” it basically wrote out the exact same code I had written, which when printed showed 10.0.

This was, of course, accepted. Why was mine not?

The provided solution resulted in an answer of 10, however the product of two floats should result in a float, 10.0. I would think that the following code provided as a solution would include a step that converts a float to an interger, unless, of course, the conversion of a float to a string automatically produces and interger.

The code given as an example does not work:

string_num = “7.5”
print int(string_num)
print float(string_num)

When i run this it says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “script.py”, line 2, in
print int(string_num)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘7.5’

Why is this happening?

That’s Python telling us that a string containing a float cannot be directly cast to an integer. But, it can be cast to a float, and then to an int.

>>> int('7.5')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#220>", line 1, in <module>
    int('7.5')
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '7.5'
>>> int(7.5)
7
>>> int(float('7.5'))
7
>>> 
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What other datatypes aside from floats, integers, and strings?

Built-in Types — Python 3.12.0 documentation

Boolean, Numeric, and Text Sequence are the most commonly used types, but as you will have read above, there are others. At some point down the road you will be exploring them, starting with Sequences.

From where i should know that i have to add o.25 x 40.0 it wasnt written anywhere i have to put there these numbers