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Hannah K
Hannah K

Reputation: 21

How to add a full stop right behind a float() variable in Python?

I'm trying to write a program for a computer programming course to calculate the area of a triangle, and the expected output is "The area is [insert number here]."

Here's what I have, and I'm frankly stumped on the full stop:

b = input('Base: ')
h = input('Height: ')
a = 0.5 * float(b) * float(h)
print('The area is', a, '.')

It outputs this:

Base: 1
Height: 1
The area is 0.5 .

This is marked as incorrect because of the extra space, how do I get rid of it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 365

Answers (1)

U13-Forward
U13-Forward

Reputation: 71610

The print default separator argument is ' ' (a space), so try changing that to '' (empty string):

print('The area is ', a, '.', sep='')

Or use + and make it a string:

print('The area is ', str(a) + '.')

Best with string formatting:

f string literal:

print(f'The area is {a}.')

Or %s:

print('The area is %s.' % a)

Or str.format:

print('The area is {}.'.format(a))

Upvotes: 1

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