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Fiyin 'Fee' Ebenezer
Fiyin 'Fee' Ebenezer

Reputation: 23

Printing strings and variables in python

as you can probably tell, I am a python beginner. In this program, I am trying to use a function but instead of determining a value for minutes, I want the user to input a value. For the return command of my function, I first used a comma to separate the variables from the string, however, this literally printed the commas in the result. So instead, I used a + operation but had to turn my erstwhile integer values into strings. Is there any way I could have printed the values without turning them to strings while also avoiding the type error?

here's my code

   def minutes_to_hours (minutes):
        hours = minutes/60
        seconds= minutes*60 
        return str(minutes) + " minutes is equivalent to " + str(hours) + " hours" + ". This is also equivalent to " + str (seconds) + " seconds."

m= int((input ("please enter the value of minutes you want to convert "))) 
print(minutes_to_hours(m))

Upvotes: 2

Views: 94

Answers (4)

Rishu S
Rishu S

Reputation: 3968

One of the approach out many other approaches will be to let your function return a list and you print the list by specifying its index.

def minutes_to_hours (minutes):
     hours = minutes/60
     seconds= minutes*60 
     return [minutes, hours, seconds] ## return your calculated value as list

m= int((input ("please enter the value of minutes you want to convert "))) 

result = minutes_to_hours(m)

print(f"{result[0]} minutes is equivalent to {result[1]} hours. This is also equivalent to {result[2]} seconds.")

Hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 0

Harsh Prakash Agarwal
Harsh Prakash Agarwal

Reputation: 351

Yes you can use comma between variables and strings but it requires changes

def func(m):
    s=m*60
    h=m/60
    return s,h
m= int((input ("please enter the value of minutes you want to convert "))) 
s,h=func(m)
print(m,"minutes are equivalent to",s,"seconds and",h,"hours)

Upvotes: 0

Jackson
Jackson

Reputation: 1223

You can also do this:

def minutes_to_hours (minutes):
    hours = minutes/60
    seconds= minutes*60
    return "{} minutes is equivalent to {} hours. This is also equivalent to {} seconds.".format(minutes, hours,seconds)

m= int((input ("please enter the value of minutes you want to convert "))) 
print(minutes_to_hours(m))

Upvotes: 1

user12867493
user12867493

Reputation:

No, to print integers you need to convert them to strings before, so your code is correct.

Upvotes: 0

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