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Why is my output not formatted as a string? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 # Ask user to enter an expression and display output
def main():
    expression = input("Expression: ")

    print(calculate(splitter(expression)))


# Split expression into components and assign to variables as float values
def splitter(expression):
    x, y, z = expression.split()

    return x, y, z

# Calculate expression result
def calculate(x, y, z):
    x, z = float(x), float(z)

    if y == "+":
        return str(round((x + z), 1))
    elif y == "-":
        return str(round((x - z), 1))
    elif y == "*":
        return str(round((x * z), 1))
    else:
        return str(round((x / z), 1))



main()

I am getting traceback errors for any expression (1 + 1) I enter.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

After the split x becomes (1 and z becomes 1). They can't be converted to float. I think that's why. Let me run the code. Edit - Also as you are returning a, b, c from splitter but Python functions return a single object. The a, b, c turns to a tuple. But you are using js syntax I think. So we have to unwrap inside the calculate function.

Now my original comment is not useful but you can try to introduce a conditional to check of the numbers x and z are actually numbers before converting to floats

# Ask user to enter an expression and display output

def main():
    expression = input("Expression: ")
    print(calculate (splitter (expression)))

# Split expression into components and assign to variables as float values

def splitter (expression):
    print(expression)
    x, y, z = expression.split()
    print(expression.split())
    return x, y, z

# Calculate expression result

# Changes Beginning
def calculate(numbers):
    x,y,z = numbers
# Changes End

    x, z = float(x), float(z)
    if y == "+":
        return str(round((x + z), 1))
    elif y == "-":
        return str(round((xz), 1))
    elif y == "*":
        return str(round((x*z), 1))
    else:
        return str(round((x / z), 1))

main()