I am running this for loop code and it is creating an error, I cannot find out the problem with it
print("""
This program will prompt you to enter your budget, and amount spent
for a certain month and calculate if your were under or over budget.
You will have the option of choosing how many months you would like to
monitor.n""")
AmountSpent = 0
Budget = 0
numMonths = int(input("Enter the number of months you would like to monitor:"))
while numMonths<0:
print("nNegative value detected!")
numMonths = int(input("Enter the number of months you would like to monitor"))
for month in range(1, numMonths+1):
print("n=====================================")
AmountBudgeted = float(input("Enter amount budgeted for month "+month+":"))
while AmountBudgeted<0:
print("Negative value detected!")
AmountBudgeted = float(input("Enter amount budgeted for month "+month+":"))
AmountSpent = float(input("Enter amount spent for month "+month+":"))
while AmountSpent<0:
print("Negative value detected!")
AmountSpent = float(input("Enter amount spent for month "+month+":"))
if AmountSpent <= AmountBudgeted:
underBy = AmountBudgeted - AmountSpent
print("Under budget by " + underBy)
else:
overBy = AmountSpent - AmountBudgeted
print("Over budget by " + overBy)
if month == "1":
print(f'your budget is {AmountBudgeted}.')
Any ideas on why I am getting this error? I have tried to figure it out on my own but I dont know why it is wrong
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Answer
Your problem is that the for-loop variable month
is an integer, so you can’t concatenate it to a string without converting it first. The easiest way to fix that is to use a format-string instead.
For example, this line:
AmountBudgeted = float(input("Enter amount budgeted for month "+month+":"))
Should be changed to:
float(input(f"Enter amount budgeted for month {month}:"))
(If you’re on an older version of Python you would write float(input("Enter amount budgeted for month {month}:".format(month=month)))
instead.)
If you’re hard-set on using concatenation instead, the trick is to convert month
to a string first using str(month)
.
Hope that helps!