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Alaina Spates
245 PointsI followed the instructions to the best of my knowledge and I have no idea what to do!
I am confused as to how to include the variable days into my code.
age = int("30")
days = int (age *52 *7)
summary = str("I am" + days(int) ys old!")
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Alaina,
Whenever you need to assign a number to a variable you can do so directly. You don't have to make it a string literal first and then convert to an integer.
Example:
age = 30
You can do the same for days. Just do the calculation and the result will already be an integer.
For the 3rd task it's probably easiest to solve it using the format() method.
If I wanted to create the string "I am 30 years old" as an example you could do it like this:
summary = "I am {} years old".format(age)
In this example, the curly braces will be replaced with whatever the value of age is.
Gordon Reeder
2,521 PointsLike Jason said... You don't have to typecast your variables. So:
age = 30
is fine. The last line, you omitted a quote.
summary = "I am" + days + "yrs old!"
Again, no need for the explicit type conversions. Python is smart enough to figure that out.
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsYou do have to convert days to a string if using string concatenation. Also, you're not allowing for spaces around days