New to Python

[Jere Kahanpaa]

Jimmie Webb <webbsoft2 at alltel.net> wrote:
> I tried x = float(nCost) but keep getting an error
> ValueError: Invalid literal for float(): EATE TA

Come on, do some basic debugging! Insert 'print repr(nCost)' before the 
conversation and look at what you really are feeding to the float() 
function. Well, we already now it: at some point you feed the string 'EATE 
TA' to float(), and it obviously cannot convert this to a number. 

Jere
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