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Edwin Castro
Courses Plus Student 24,037 Points1st Python Challenge
This one is giving me trouble. I created the variable but the math part is giving me trouble. I don't know where to begin.
name = "Edwin" print("Hello") print(name)
print("Let's do some math!") print(5 + "a")
print("Thanks for playing along!")
name = "Edwin"
print("Hello")
print(name)
print("Let's do some math!")
print(5 + "a")
print("Thanks for playing along!")
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! It seems to me that you're doing fairly well so far. But keep in mind that while some languages can add an integer and a string together, Python is not among them.
So you have this line:
print(5 + "a")
And here you have two options. You can either change both to be a string, or both to be a number.
print(5 + 2)
would work as well as:
print("z" + "a")
Hope this helps!
rakan omar
15,066 Pointsadding integer and string is not compatible.
print(str(5) + "a")
this will turn integer 5 into string '5'