[Tutor] Help with simple coding

[Alan Gauld]

On 14/08/2020 16:33, Marshall Jones wrote:

> Spent hours on this, but seem to be getting further from getting it right.

There are a lot of things wrong here. Let's start at the top...

> money = int(input("how much money would you like to change into coins?"))
> coins = input("what coins do you want them in")

input() returns a string, so whatever you get back will be a string.

> pounds = (money // 1)
> fifty = (money // 0.5)
> twenties = (money // 0.2)
> tens = (money // 0.1)
> fives = (money // 0.02)
> twos = (money // 0.05)
> ones = (money // 0.001)

These values all store integers.

> if coins == pounds:

You are here comparing a string to an integer
eg.

if "pounds" == 42


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