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Chris Chen
Chris Chen

Reputation: 47

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'float'

I am using Python 2 but I'm getting an error:

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'float'

when the script runs to the last line. I don't understand which variable is still a string type.

from sys import argv
script, age, height=argv
print 'you\'re %r old'%age
weight=input('and i need your weight to calculate BMI, can you tell me:') 
print 'your BMI is %r'%weight/((float(height)/100)**2)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8049

Answers (2)

Chris Chen
Chris Chen

Reputation: 47

from sys import argv
script, age, height=argv
print 'you\'re %r old'%age
weight=input('and i need your weight to calculate BMI, can you tell me:') 
print 'your BMI is %r'%(weight/((float(height)/100)**2))

i found the solution, it's because a formula after % must be in ()

Upvotes: 3

Prune
Prune

Reputation: 77910

weight = float(weight)
height = float(height)
age = int(age)

You forgot to convert the input from string to numeric. To diagnose:

print weight, type(weight)
print height, type(height)
print age, type(age)
...

Upvotes: 1

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