Saharan-sub

Posted on Jul 29, 2020

#Python question

#python

I want to use the round() function.
step 1: take a number from the user
step 2: use the round() func on the input
end

I do ot know why i keep getting "ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10"

This is what I have been doing:
print('Enter a number to be rounded : ')
num = input ()
num = int () #converting str from the input() to int
print (round (num,2))

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Loki Le DEV • Jul 29 '20 • Edited

Read your code line by line and try to understand each line and each symbol.
You need to learn about types also:

input() returns a str
int () is a function, it takes a parameter, a str and converts it to an number (an integer).

Here is what happens in your code:
num = input() : you assign the result of input() to a variable called num, if you typed 10 and enter, num contain the string '10'.

num = int() When you do this, you will change the value of num. Also int () needs a parameter! This is why you have an error. No parameter is not a valid value to pass to this function.

Solution:

# I cut it in small steps so you can understand each one.
num_str = input()  # read a string typed by the user
num = int(num_str) # convert the string to a number
result = round(num, 2) # perform rounding to 2 decimals

You can combine everything in one line but it's less readable:

num_rounded = round(int(input()), 2)

Bonus

I believe type annotations are actually a good help for newcomers to really understand what is going on:

num : str = input()
num : int = int(num)
result : int = round(num, 2)

Saharan-sub • Jul 30 '20

Hi, played with it further using your example

"""
print ("This application rounds your number to 2 decima places")
print("enter number: ")
num_str = input ()
print (type (num_str), "This is the input type")
num = float(num_str)
print (type (num), "This is the str converted to float")
print ("number entered is:" , num_str)
print ("after applying the round func to 2 decimal gives: ", round(num,2))
"""

one liner below

print ("This application rounds your number to 2 decima places. Enter number: ")
num = round(float(input()),2)
print(num)

Saharan-sub • Jul 30 '20

Hi Loik, thanks for this easy to follow breakdown.

I tried the first two steps but was getting the feedback in the attachment, not sure what is wrong now.

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Bonus

one liner below

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