Thanks, it works now perfectly! Thanks for all the help! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <tutor@python.org> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Is this correct syntax for what I want?
>> File "C:\Python24\Account Tracker.py", line 49, in printall >> print account,"\t $",accountlist[account]+"\n" >> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'float' and 'str' >> >> So how do I fix this error? > > What it's saying is you can't add a float and string. If you > look at the code you are trying to add "\n" to accountlist[account] > which is a float. You need to convert the string to a float or > the float to a string. In this case converting the float to a > string would be the better approach! :-) > > However I would personally recommend that you use a > format string here since it will give you much better control > of the appearance of the output and avoids the need to > convert the values. > > print "%s\t $%0.2f\n" % (account, accountlist[account]) > > HTH, > > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
