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Python Python Basics (2015) Logic in Python Try and Except

Fin Muir
Fin Muir
1,108 Points
Posted by Fin Muir
Fin Muir
1,108 Points

I need help with floats

I'm stuck

trial.py 
def add(num1, num2):
    return(float(num1 + num2))

1 Answer

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

This challenge doesn't need anything to be converted to a float, you can just return the sum of the two variables (you won't need parentheses around the return statement).

But, if you do need to cast something to a float in the future it would look like this:

num = 10
num_to_float = float(num)