[Tutor] number conversion problem (was: Re: [no subject])

[Lance E Sloan]

--On Tuesday, June 8, 2004 4:45 PM -0400 Dragonfirebane at aol.com wrote:
> the full code as is is below (not working). as of right now, i'm
> oncentrating only on the text function since the number converter works
> fine. the reason i'm using if and not for is that using for creates a
> loop where the program prints the converted number based on the number of
> characters in the original number (1100                  1100) or
> something of the sort for 12, whereas 'if' prints the same number (1100)
> once, due to the [print binary[int(original) - 1]] command.

OK.  Then I think we're back to the problem being that you are referencing 
"char" before you ever assign any value to it.  The error I get is:

      Please enter numbers or text to be converted. 1234
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "multivert.py", line 33, in ?
          if char in number:
      NameError: name 'char' is not defined

What do you expect the variable "char" to contain?  A single character of 
the user's input string, one character at a time until you reach the end of 
the string?

If so, you're going to need a line like this somewhere just before you 
reference "char":

      for char in original:

I've not checked this, but it would probably go just before your "if char 
in number" statement.

Also, I don't know the details of the problem you're trying to solve, but 
there are more mathematical ways of converting numbers from one base to 
another that would not require you to include long lists of all the 
possible conversions in your program.

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