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Start your free trialIsabella Elyse Letson Ettin
784 Pointsproblems with subtraction
Hi! I have compared my code against Craig's, but there are a couple of errors. I have only tinkered with this section of code,
print("SOLD!")
tickets_remaining -= num_tickets - tickets_remaining
but I have gotten several different outputs, all of them wrong. currently my code looks like this:
TICKET_PRICE = 10
tickets_remaining = 100
while tickets_remaining >= 1:
print("There are {} tickets remaining".format(tickets_remaining))
name = input("What is your name? ")
num_tickets = input("Hello, {}. How many tickets would you like? ".format(name))
#expect a ValueError and handle it appropriately
try:
num_tickets = int(num_tickets)
#raise value error if number of tickets requested is for more tickets than are available.
if num_tickets > tickets_remaining:
raise ValueError("There are only {} tickets remaining".format(tickets_remaining))
except ValueError as err:
#Include the error text in the output
print("Oh no, we ran into an issue. {}. Please try again. ".format(err))
else:
num_tickets = int(num_tickets)
amount_due = num_tickets * TICKET_PRICE
print("The total due is ${}. ".format(amount_due))
should_proceed = input("Do you want to proceed? Y/N? ")
if should_proceed.lower() == "y":
#TODO: gather credit card info and process it.
print("SOLD!")
tickets_remaining -= num_tickets - tickets_remaining
else:
print("Thank you, {} ".format(name))
print("Sorry the tickets are all sold out!!! :(( ")
and it is spitting out
There are 100 tickets remaining
What is your name? Bella
Hello, Bella. How many tickets would you like? 3
The total due is $30.
Do you want to proceed? Y/N? y
SOLD!
There are 197 tickets remaining
What is your name?
The problem here is that by saying there are 197 tickets left, it implies we started with 200, rather than 100.
What might be going wrong? Thanks for your help!
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsHey Isabella Elyse Letson Ettin, youβre using both in-place operator -= and the regular subtraction -
operator.
# what your doing
>>> a = 100
>>> b = 3
>>> a -= b - a
>>> a
197
# this is equivalent to
>>> a = 100
>>> a = a - (b - a)
>>> a
197
# What you want is either
>>> a = 100
>>> a -= b
>>> a
97
# or the equivalent long form
>>> a = 100
>>> a = a - b
>>> a
97
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!