2010/10/22 Joe Shoulak <joepshou...@yahoo.com>: > I'm trying to make a sports simulation program and so far everything has > worked until I try entering: > > Score1 = (Team1Off + Team2Def)/2 > > I get the error: > > TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int' > > Can someone please explain to me what this means, why it doesn't work and > what I can do to make it work? > > Thanks, > Best Wishes, > Joe Shoulak > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > The error message says, that the division operator "/" was applied between string and integer number, which obviously don't work. As the previous addition (Team1Off + Team2Def) didn't failed, both of these items are probably strings. If they are number literals, you can simply use int(Team1Off) + int(Team2Def) Also note, that "/" means integer division by default (until python 2) - i.e. the remainder would be discarded; you can enforce float division by making at least one operand floating point number: some_int/2.0
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