Conversion resulting in 0?

Question

Here's the relevant parts of my script :

Inch = 1
Ft = inch/12
#Ft = inch*0.083

print "" I am 5.9 therefore I am %d"" % (5.9*ft)

Keeps giving 0" tried changing from "ft = inch*0.083" thinking it was because that was a zero but obviously that wasn't the problem.

Sorry, I know this is a daft question but I'm not sure what I'd even search for to find the answer.

Answer 1

Aha, now I get it.

The division goes alright. You just format the string output incorrectly. %d means to format the number as integer. Try using %f for this particular case.

Answer 2

Glad that helped 🤓👍

Answer 3

I am assuming you are using Python 2.7. Try with Inch = 1.0 (explicitly write the floating point value). Python should then start treating it as a float.

Answer 4

Yes, you can open www.sololearn.com and copy the code to the Code Playground. Then you can save it as the python code and even run it here.

Answer 5

Wait... could you please upload the code or at least write the whole arithmetic operation?

Answer 6

Thanks kuba but it didn't work. I thought it was due to the original variable being an integer but I figured it wasn't as I've got a similar bit if code for weight which is working. Only difference is that the weight one results in positive numbers :
Lbs=1
Kg=lbs/2.2

... % ((74*lbs)*kg)

Results in 33

Is it because lbs/12 results in a negative number? I wouldn't have thought so but it's the only difference I can see.

Answer 7

Codes on my laptop, is it possible to upload it onto here somehow? I can't see a way without redoing the whole thing but I could though if necessary.

Answer 8

Haha, thanks. I started rewriting anyway just in case I spotted anything. Just the relevant bits, I'll go add the actual script now as well.
This isn't working in the playground, I'm using python 2 on my laptop, is it python 3 in the playground? The syntax error doesn't happen on the laptop anyway. But maybe you can see something I don't.

Edit
Yeah, just saw on the site that it's python 3. If you know python 2 I'm guessing that shouldn't be an issue tho... I hope ha

Answer 9

https://code.sololearn.com/c0FBG9J4lute/?ref=app

Answer 10

Awesome, that worked. Thanks a bunch!

I wasn't sure about the format characters as the tut I'm following just introduced them, %d and %s, with no explanation as of yet.

It did say to search for more but I left out 'strings' in my search and the results weren't relevant, enough for me to understand yet.

Got it now though, thanks.