Question

My entire code is below (didn’t want to miss anything). For some reason I keep getting an error where I can’t convert a float to an int?

import math

def getRange(input):
    if (1 <= input < 10):
        return [1,1,9]
    elif (10 <= input < 190):
        return [2,10,99]
    elif (190 <= input < 2890):
        return [3,100,999]
    elif (2890 <= input < 38890):
        return [4,1000,9999]
    elif (38890 <= input < 488890):
        return [5,10000,99999]
    elif (488890 <= input < 5888889):
        return [6,100000,999999]

def getDigit(input):
    workingRange=getRange(input)
    multi_digit_dec = ((input-workingRange[1])/workingRange[0])+workingRange[1]
    multi_digit_float = math.floor((input-workingRange[1])/workingRange[0])+workingRange[1]
    print multi_digit_float
    multi_digit_int = input(multi_digit_float)
    decimal_remainder = multi_digit_int - multi_digit_dec
##    digit_id = decimal_remainder * len(str(multi_digit_int))
##    actual_digit = str(multi_digit_dec)[digit_id]
##    return actual_digit


getDigit(100)

My error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Samuel\Desktop\Python\concatenate string of variables and product values.py", line 29, in <module>
    getDigit(100)
  File "C:\Users\Samuel\Desktop\Python\concatenate string of variables and product values.py", line 22, in getDigit
    multi_digit_int = int(multi_digit_float)
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>>> 

Code updated above to reflect change of variable called int to input

Answer 1

The problem is that you’re using int as a variable name, and that shadows the built-in function. Rename the variable.

In general, it’s worth familiarizing oneself with the names of the built-in functions, to avoid this type of problems.