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Python

Posted by Harsh Kumar Woike
Harsh Kumar Woike
204 Points

this code is not compiling.. i copied from the video. but still not happening

user_string = input("what's your word? ")
user_num = input(what's your number? ")

try:
    our_num = int(user_num)
except:                 
    our_num = float(user_num)                            

if not '.' in user_num:
    print(user_string[our_num])
else:                                
  ratio = =round{len(user_string)*user_num}
    print(user_string[ratio])

3 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

There are just a few syntax errors:

user_string = input("what's your word? ")
user_num = input("what's your number? ")  #<-- missing open quote mark

try:
    our_num = int(user_num)
except:                 
    our_num = float(user_num)                            

if not '.' in user_num:
    print(user_string[our_num])
else:                                
    ratio = round(len(user_string)*user_num) #<-- remove extra = sign, use {} instead of {}, adjust indent
    print(user_string[ratio])
C H
C H
6,587 Points
C H
C H
6,587 Points

Which video? I'm not sure what you're trying to do. I noticed a forgotten quotation mark and some of the usage of brackets/groupings don't make sense unless you're working with dictionaries or lists.

user_string = input("what's your word? ")

#added quotation mark
user_num = input("what's your number? ")

try:
    our_num = int(user_num)
except:                 
    our_num = float(user_num)

if '.' not in user_num:
    #not sure what you want to print, but to print the word and number it's like this
    print(user_string + user_num)
else:
    #don't use curly brackets here                                
    ratio = round(len(user_string) * our_num)
    print(user_string + str(ratio))
jasonleonhard
jasonleonhard
3,424 Points
jasonleonhard
jasonleonhard
3,424 Points

FYI: Python is "interpreted", not "compiled".

Not to confuse you, but to be clear, there are exceptions to this, such as Jython compiles into Java byte code, or the RPython language can be compiled to C, Java bytecode,