CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
H. Seigne
H. Seigne

Reputation: 45

New to programming and trying to finish this task for school, I can't seem to add numbers in a list together

I have a bit of code thats for a task we have to complete for school. I'm trying to add some numbers in a list so I can average that number. Whenever I try to do this it just tells me its an unsupported operand type for int and str. I think what I have to do is convert the inputs into floats rather than strings but I'm not sure how to. Code below:

final = False
while final == False: 
    judgeScoreForLoop = 0
    judgeScoreLoop = []

    while True:
        try:
            eventName = str(input("What is the event's name? "))
            numberJudges = int(input("How many judges are there? "))
            competitorName = str(input("What is the competitor's name? "))
            for judgeScoreForLoop in range (0, numberJudges):
                judgeScore = input("Enter the judge score here: ")
                judgeScoreLoop.append(judgeScore)
                judgeScoreForLoop + 1
            break
        except ValueError:
            print("One of the inputs was invalid, please try again.")

    finalJudges = numberJudges - 2

    judgeScoreCombined = sum(judgeScoreLoop)
    judgeFinalScore = judgeScoreCombined / finalJudges

    if competitorName == "Finish".lower():
        final = True

    print(judgeFinalScore)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Dave Norm
Dave Norm

Reputation: 185

You can convert the input straight into a float

  judgeScore = float(input("Enter the judge score here: "))

But it might be best to check if the user has supplied a number first by prehaps using isdigit() I don't want to give too much away but that should help

Upvotes: 3

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