Trying to display hours, payrate, gross pay (python)

Question

Trying to display hours, payrate, gross pay but its keeps telling me to turn it to a string. I have a Read file program that won't read these three variables.

#This program get employee Name, id, department, and gross pay
# and saves it to records employeeRec.txt file

def main():
#get the number of employee records to create
num_emps = int(input('How many employee records ' + 'do you want to create? '))

#open a file for writing
emp_file = open('employeeRec.txt', 'w')

#get each employee's data and write it to
# the file
for count in range(1, num_emps +1):
#get data for an employee
print('Enter data for employee #', count, sep='')
name = input('Name: ')
id_num = input('ID number: ')
dept = input('Department: ')
#get number of hours worked
hours = int(input('How many hours did you work? (numbers only) '))
#get hourly pay rate
pay_rate = float(input('Enter you hourly pay rate: '))

#calculate gross
gross_pay = hours * pay_rate

#display the gross pay
print('Gross pay:

Answer 1

Could you make it into a Playground post? It's very hard to analyze it like that.

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

Here is the code on play ground

https://code.sololearn.com/cSXDQPWftvC7/#py