Python: Printing a variable with a float and then adding a £ sign

Question

Whenever I go to print out a GBP sign followed by a number I get this error code.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 65, in <module>
    print (u"\xA3" + total_cost)
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "float") to str

This is the code.

total_cost == 10
print (u"\xA3" + total_cost)

I would like for it to output £10.

Can someone help please?

Simplest would be to use `,` instead of `+` inside the `print` or then just cast the `total_cost` to string with `str(total_cost)`. If you want to control the number of digits printed, use f-strings. — Niko Föhr, Feb 26 '21 at 09:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:52

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You could try to convert the number to a string using the str() function. It's not very efficient for a lot of computations though so beware :)

print(u"\xA3" + str(total_cost))

answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:52

L. Landenne

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:53

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>>> print (u"\xA3", total_cost, sep='')
£10

answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:53

Fedor Dikarev

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:53

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try this:

print (u"\xA3" + str(total_cost))

answered Feb 26 '21 at 09:53

M.Noe

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Python: Printing a variable with a float and then adding a £ sign

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