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Python

Posted by R Arts
R Arts
18,453 Points

Gather Information ( python) What i doing wrong ?

TICKET_PRICE = 10

tickets_remaining = 100

print("There are {} tickets are remaining?".format(tickets_remaining))

name = input("What is your name? ")

num_tickets = ("How many tickets would you like, {}? ".format(name)) num_tickets = int(num_tickets)

amount_due = num_tickets * TICKET_PRICE print("Het total of the ticket are ${}".format(amount_due))

What is your name? Donald
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "masterticket.py", line 11, in <module>
num_tickets = int(num_tickets)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'How many tickets would you like, Donald? '
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1 Answer

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

What you are doing wrong is that you didn't use the input command on your prompt

#  input is missing
num_tickets = ("How many tickets would you like, {}? ".format(name))

#  add input and it should work
num_tickets = input("How many tickets would you like, {}? ".format(name))