TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects Can someone please help a newbie with their code?

Question

Any help is appreciated, also any big flaws or something you see in the way im formatting or something basic, please point it out. Thanks!

day = raw_input(\"         


        

Answer 1

First thing to understand is that raw_input returns a string, so there's no need to cast the result to a string afterwards.

What you want (I think) is to cast day to an int, so you need to change the top part.

day = raw_input("How many days?")
location = raw_input("Where to?")
days = int(day)
spendingMoney = 100

In your original code, days was a string, and so you were trying to add a string to and integer (which raised the error).

Multiplying a string by an integer is perfectly valid, as it simply repeats the original string several times over.

print 'foobar' * 5
# foobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfoobar

Answer 2

the problem is that days is a string.

when you do

return 140 * days

it actually multiples your string to 140. so if days == "5" you will have "555555555555555555..." (140 characters)

you want to operate with integers so do days = int(day) instead