python: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'long' objects

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I'm trying to set up a choice field in django, but I don't think this is a django issue. The choices field takes an iterable (e.g., a list or tuple) of 2-tuples to use as choices for this field.

Here's my code:

self.fields['question_' + question.id] = forms.ChoiceField(
                label=question.label,
                help_text=question.description,
                required=question.answer_set.required,
                choices=[("fe", "a feat"), ("faaa", "sfwerwer")])

for some reason, i always get the following error:

TypeError - cannot concatenate 'str' and 'long' objects

The last line is always highlighted.

I'm not trying to concatenate anything. Almost regardless of what I change the list to for the 'choices' parameter, I get this error.

What's going on?

Note that "the last line is highlighted" because it's pointing to the whole multi-line statement in which the error is located. — Andrew Jaffe
– Andrew Jaffe, Commented Aug 20, 2010 at 16:34

Mark Rushakoff · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 16:33:19Z

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Most likely it's highlighting the last line only because you split the statement over multiple lines.

The fix for the actual problem will most likely be changing

self.fields['question_' + question.id]

to

self.fields['question_' + str(question.id)]

As you can quickly test in a Python interpreter, adding a string and a number together doesn't work:

>>> 'hi' + 6

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
    'hi' + 6
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
>>> 'hi' + str(6)
'hi6'

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 16:33

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Sjoerd · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 16:32:48Z

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'question_' is a string, question.id is a long. You can not concatenate two things of different types, you will have to convert the long to a string using str(question.id).

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 16:32

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kennytm · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 16:32:26Z

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Probably question.id is an integer. Try

self.fields['question_' + str(question.id)] = ...

instead.

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 16:32

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Umang · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 16:35:12Z

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self.fields['question_' + question.id]

That looks like the problem. Try

"question_%f"%question.id

or

"question_"+ str(question.id)

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 16:35

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John La Rooy · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20 16:36:18Z

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This is a problem with doing too many things in one line - the error messages become slightly less helpful. Had you written it as below the problem would be much easier to find

question_id = 'question_' + question.id
self.fields[question_id] = forms.ChoiceField(
                label=question.label,
                help_text=question.description,
                required=question.answer_set.required,
                choices=[("fe", "a feat"), ("faaa", "sfwerwer")])

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 16:36

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