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Python

Posted by Daire Allen
Daire Allen
3,296 Points

Functions relating to tutorial videos

Hi,

I'm finding some tasks are asking for things that were not mentioned in the previous videos which makes it hard to figure out the code. Its possible I'm missing something. If so I apologise.

E.g. Python Basics is my first Python course:

In 'Try and Except' (3 objectives), the 2nd task states "Let's make sure we're always working with floats. Convert your arguments to floats before you add them together. You can do this with the float() function."

Was 'float' covered in the previous tutorial videos or how should we figure things like this out?

Thanks

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

hit the python docs. https://docs.python.org/3/ in the upper right there is a link to index, click on the letter you need, here F, find float and see what it does. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float reading the docs is part of coding.

Daire Allen
Daire Allen
3,296 Points

Thanks James. That helps. I'm fairly new to this