New to Python

[Jimmie Webb]

I tried x = float(nCost) but keep getting an error

ValueError: Invalid literal for float(): EATE TA


"Thomas Krüger" <thomas.krueger at gmx.net> wrote in message
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> w wrote:
>
> > excuse my ignorance. I cannot get this simple program to calculate
> > the formula.
> >
> > The error message is unsupported operand type(s) str. I know the data
> > that I'm reading from the file is a string but I cannot convert it to
> > a float or int.
>
> x = int(y)
> or
> x = float(y)
> ???
>
> Thomas