Pycharm won't add numbers together properly(weird return)

Question

I have a very basic program which adds 2 numbers:

def addition(a, b):
    print(a + b)

addition(input("Number 1: "), input("Number 2: "))

However, the console doesn't return what I want, not adding the numbers in the way I expect. EG:

Number 1: 2
Number 2: 3
23

The console sticks them together as if they are in a list, instead of performing arithmetic! How do I stop this happening? How am I meant to add them arithmetically?

You should convert the input to `int` before feeding them to the function: `int(input("Number 1"))` ... — Walid, Dec 28 '20 at 10:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '20 at 10:31

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The problem is that you are not doing arithmetic. You are concatenating two strings ("2" and "3"). The result of that is the string "23".

Try this:

def addition(a, b):
    print(int(a) + int(b))

addition(input("Number 1"), input("Number 2"))

answered Dec 28 '20 at 10:31

Jens

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