On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 10:26, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm not finding any info. on the int() for converting a str to an int
> (that specifies a base parameter)?! The picture is of the code I've
> written... And the base 10 paradigm involved?? years = int('y') # store for
> calculation ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'y'
>
Imagine giving this to a human. "How many years did you say?" "Oh, y years."
Is that a reasonable way to say a number of years? No. It's an invalid
way of specifying a number of years. Python is a little more technical
in the way it describes it, but the fact is unchanged.
ChrisA
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