wxPython message dialog won't work with function

Question

I'm new to Python and just started writing a basic GUI program with wxPython. I have a series of text boxes where the user enters data and then they click a submit button.

The submit button triggers a getvalue method for each box (it looks like a=self.textbox1.GetValue()).

The there is a function that simply reads answer=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h.

Then finally there's the wx.MessageDialog(self, answer, Title, wx.OK | wx.ICON_EXCLAMATION) that prints the answer in a msg dialog.

But instead of printing the sum of the numbers, it just prints them in a series.

I was messing around and replaced the variables in the answer function with actual integers and it gives me an error that says:

String or Unicode type required

I can't really think of any way to fix it since I only have like two days experience with Python.

How can I fix this?

FogleBird · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-04 01:11:26Z

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GetValue() gives you the string value of what was typed.

You want to convert the strings to integers before trying to sum them.

a = int(self.textbox1.GetValue())

answered Mar 4, 2013 at 1:11

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Thomas May Over a year ago

Now it gives ValueError: could not convert string to float:

Thomas May Over a year ago

Actually that was another part of the code, fixed that, but the message dialog is still giving the same error after I took int values of variables.

FogleBird Over a year ago

You have to convert answer back to a string to display it. str(answer)

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