[dragonballz_ff]

I am new to programming and I was working on this program and for this piece of code I can only input a number a certain amount of times until it says "could not convert to string" when run in the debugger. When the CLS is uncommented only 2 inputs would be allowed until this error would come but when commented 14 inputs are allowed. Why would this be happening? Thanks a lot for your help. Here is my code

while(difference != count):
    number = str(number)
    grade = float(raw_input("Enter course grade for course # " + number + ": "))
    Grades.append(grade)
    difference += 1
    number = int(number)
    number += 1
    #os.system("CLS")

I have also attatched the full program for refernce. Thanks a lot.

[Simown]

Can you please post the full error message verbatim, and the inputs you are using. Which bit "cannot be converted to string"? There are several casts in that program.

[wordswords]

I would say that the os.system() call is interfering with your raw_input call. 'CLS' is the windows command to clear the screen.

Why not do this?

1	while(difference != count):
2	    number = str(number)
3	    grade = float(raw_input("Enter course grade for course # " + number + ": "))
4	    Grades.append(grade)
5	    difference += 1
6	    number = int(number)
7	    number += 1
8	os.system("CLS")

That above code mean the screen is cleared only once the while loop has finished processing.

If you want to let users input without it being shown on the screen at all for security purposes, try the getpass function - http://docs.python.o...ry/getpass.html

[deviljeon]

I think he's right...
Indention is important in python and a single mistake would ruin the whole program(well, based from my experience)