def absolutevalue(num):
if num >= 0:
abs_num = num
else:
abs_num = -num
print("The absolute value"+ abs_num)
If I try to run the function absolutevalue(4), it throws error as follows
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-16-36bd355eb83d>", line 1, in <module>
absolutevalue(4)
File "<ipython-input-15-42a3de37c325>", line 6, in absolutevalue
print("The absolute value"+ abs_num)
TypeError: must be str, not int
print("The absolute value"+ abs_num)
Python is giving you an error in this line because you can use + operator only to concatenate two string or add two integers together. You can't add integer to a string or concatenate an string with integer. It's bad syntax in Python.
You can fix this by using the string version of the integer.
print("The absolute value"+ str(abs_num))
You need to change this line
print("The absolute value"+ abs_num)
to be
print("The absolute value", abs_num)
The efficient and quick way to do this is:
print("The absolute value {}".format(abs_num))
And in the latest version of Python which is 3.7 we have formatted strings now:
print(f'The absolute value {abs_num}')
