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Python Python Basics (Retired) Things That Count Things That Count

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Posted by Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Summary variable Question

What is wrong with the summary variable? It keeps saying it looks like step 1 is no longer working when ever I submit it.

days_alive.py 
age = 1337
days = 1337 * 52 *  7
estimate = round (days)
summary = ("I am " + estimate + " days old!")

3 Answers

Mikael Enarsson
Mikael Enarsson
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Mikael Enarsson
Mikael Enarsson
7,056 Points

Python doesn't allow implicit conversions between ints and strings. Just slap on a bit of explicit conversion with str() and you should be fine ^^

MUZ140153 Tatenda Zimba
MUZ140153 Tatenda Zimba
2,782 Points
MUZ140153 Tatenda Zimba
MUZ140153 Tatenda Zimba
2,782 Points

since age= 1337, days = age * 52 * 7

Also,

summary = "I am " + str(estimate) + " days old!"

Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Just updated this code challenge to make that last step make more sense.

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Awesome Kenneth! Loving python. I hope you can dip into beautifulsoup or other similar tools. I want to really learn Python to be able to scrape data and do stuff like that.