manipulating data

[Fredrik Lundh]

ibrewale_2000 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a Pmw/Tkinter program I am trying to write (just learning), in a
> text entry box I can retrieve numbers entered into it and print it like
> this...
>
> print self.amount.get()
>
> But I want to assign the number I retrieve with get, into a variable,
> like:
>
> b = self.amount.get()
>
> but this doesnt work.

"doesn't work" as in "TypeError: can't multiply sequence
with non-int"?

If so, Python's trying to say that you're mixing data types.

> How do I put it into the variable??

assuming "self.amount" is an Entry widget (or something
compatible), try:

    b = float(self.amount.get())
    b = b * 0.0875
    ...

Cheers /F