>> print "The value in years is", principal > To actually answer your question, in order to print this correctly, > you > need to tell Python to convert the integer (principal) to a string > by > using the built-in function str() like so:
Not so. print automatically calls str() on all its arguments so the programmer doesn't need to. An alternative way to solve your probnlem is to use format strings: print "Years = %s;\tPrincipal = %s" % (years,principal) HTH, Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
