Question

Hello everyone i tried writing a program that convert meter to centimeter with the conditional statement but my program did not run may be i defined it wrongly or my print command was faulty i need help once again.
def meter(centimeter):
""" converting meter to centimeter"""
Meter = int(raw_input(" Enter number here : ")
if '1 meter' == '0 centimeter':
print " this is hardly possible "
elif '1 meter' == '100 centimeter':
print " true "
elif:
centimeter = (Meter * 100)/1
print " centimeter ",
else:
print " can't "

Answer 1

Your if and first elif conditions both fail. The string literal "1 meter" is never going to be equivalent to "0 centimeter". You may also want to consider making Meter a float too.

Answer 2

I tried using 1 meter and it still did run just like always the error message came up that my syntax is invalid.Should i concatenate '1' and 'meter' and the same on the other part of == ie '1' and 'centimeter' ?

Answer 3

Because i know i can't concatenate an int with a str. how can i get this code to run if my problem is located in my if and first elif conditions ?

Answer 4

i just got to understand how to use the def funtion. my code was ont defined well.

Answer 5

I don't tha lang

Answer 6

If you review some basic information about how variables, functions, and conditional statements work then you'll begin to understand why your code isn't working. This code will work, however:

meters=int(raw_input("Please enter the number of meters you want to convert without the m:'))

print "That equals this many centimeters:", meters*100

Answer 7

Or, rather, it should be a double quote after the "m:"

Answer 8

Meter -> centimeter is straightforward: cm = m * 100 # centi means 1/100

Do you need the conditional to check input? Should the program convert cm -> m too and you need to decide which way to go? There just isn't a need for conditionals for what you've described.