Casting from str to int

[aztrav]

Hi all, absolute Python beginner here...

Question: I am getting an "unsupported operand type" error on my code below on line 13 of my code. I think it's telling me I need to cast from a string to an integer but everything I try I still get an error.

Can anyone please tell me what i'm missing/doing wrong?

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/aaron/PycharmProjects/assessment_two/marks.py", line 13, in <module>
sumOfMarks = sum(marksList)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

ERROR
please enter your 5 marks below
enter mark 1: 10
enter mark 2: 12
enter mark 3: 16
enter mark 4: 14
enter mark 5: 18
['10', '12', '16', '14', '18']

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/aaron/PycharmProjects/assessment_two/marks.py", line 13, in <module>
sumOfMarks = sum(marksList)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

Process finished with exit code 1

CODE

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print("please enter your 5 marks below")   mark1 = input("enter mark 1: ") mark2 = input("enter mark 2: ") mark3 = input("enter mark 3: ") mark4 = input("enter mark 4: ") mark5 = input("enter mark 5: ")   marksList = [mark1, mark2, mark3, mark4, mark5]   print(marksList)   sumOfMarks = sum(marksList) averageOfMarks = sum(marksList)/5   print("The sum of your marks is: "+str(sumOfMarks)) print("The average of your marks is: "+str(averageOfMarks))

Thanks,
Aaron

[buran]

look at int() function. input() will return str, so you need to cast them to int.

[aztrav]

Thanks buran

But where do I put this in my code? I have tried putting it in several places but get a type error like the one below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/aaron/PycharmProjects/assessment_two/marks.py", line 9, in <module>
marksList = int[mark1, mark2, mark3, mark4, mark5]
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

Thanks,
Aaron

[aztrav]

..Ah ignore me - i got it to work.

Thank you

[perfringo]

If you got it working then you should have time to consider some other aspects of your code:

- use naming conventions set in PEP8 (Function and Variable Names)
- on row #13 you calculate sum. On next line you calculate it again instead of using already calculated value.
- instead of repeating rows #3-7 and then putting variables into list you can do it in one step (note that I omitted datatype conversion problem as it is already solved):

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>>> [input(f'Enter mark {i+1}: ') for i in range(5)] Enter mark 1: 1 Enter mark 2: 2 Enter mark 3: 3 Enter mark 4: 4 Enter mark 5: 5 ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5']