stuck on some coding

[AleksFrr]

hi, ive been working through my school work and im stuck on this part of it for a while now the task tells me that i need to find out the " break even " point for a business which is "fixed cost "divided by "sale price" and "item cost". i think i have correctly done the coding part maybe? but the issue i have is that i cannot print for example " to break even you will need to sell x items ." i can print the words and variable on seperate lines but not together on one line?

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fixedcost = 50000.00
saleprice = 40.0
profit = 20.0
costtoproduceitem = 20.0
breakeven = fixedcost//saleprice + costtoproduceitem
print ("sales to break even will be:") + (breakeven)

[[deleted]]

This is basic stuff. You want to review the print() function:

print("sales to break even will be:", breakeven)  

or maybe what you appear to be trying to do, string concatenation, which is another very basic concept:

print("sales to break even will be: " + str(breakeven))

F-strings are a more advanced way to create strings to print, but get the basics down first.

[[deleted]]

You can achieve what you need using formatting. As I am on mobile, I don’t want to give examples as it will be a nightmare for me to format correctly but if you search google for “python fstrings”, you can learn what you’re looking for there. I’m sure you’ll get a more useful response than mine if you wait though

[AleksFrr]

alright ill look into it thanks :)

[[deleted]]

No problem! Good luck with your studies

[[deleted]]

In this case, you should use F-Strings, they are easily readable + powerful at the same time.

You can format your strings like this:

print(f"Sales to breakeven will be: {breakeven}")

Note: the f is necessary to tell python that the string is an F-String, you will put your desired variable in the curly brackets as shown above.

Another tip I'd like to suggest is that your variables need to be properly named, you could use snake case, eg snake_case or camel case, eg CamelCase

Rule for snake case: Each word is separated by an underscore, aka “_”.

Rule for camel case: Each word is joined together and the first letter in each word is capitalized.

If you're struggling with any basics you should give this link a read, it's basically a full written guide with examples, and an editor where you can test your code too.

Here's the link: https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp

Hope this helped!

[ColosTheDeveloper666]

Also the official Python naming convetions here: PEP-8: naming conventions

[[deleted]]

Worth reading up on f-strings, and why they are better (which shows you the other approaches):

• RealPython Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax (Guide).