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Jesse DiMauro
Courses Plus Student 937 PointsDealing with variables and integers.
I was following the video and playing around with variables. I set age equal to 20, multiplied it by 10 and divided it by 10, giving me a float of 20.0. That raised an interesting question, could I turn the variable back into an integer? I tried 'int("age")' but got back "ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'age'". Purely for curiosity, how would you go about turning the variable back to an integer?
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsYou were trying to convert the string "age" into an integer. It will work if you leave off the quotes 
int(age)
You could also keep it from becoming a float to start with if you use integer division ("age //= 10") instead of regular division.
Jesse DiMauro
Courses Plus Student 937 PointsJesse DiMauro
Courses Plus Student 937 PointsAh, thank you! And thanks for that extra info as well!