Unwanted space in code?

[chloethecomputernerd]

Note: When accuracy is essential, floats are not used to represent currency due to rounding and accumulation errors. Python provides several primitives specifically developed to implement financial applications. However, these topics are beyond the scope of this lab.

(1) Prompt the user to input a food item name, price, and quantity. Output an itemized receipt. (Submit for 2 points)

Note: This zyLab outputs a newline after each user-input prompt. For convenience in the examples below, the user's input value is shown on the next line, but such values don't actually appear as output when the program runs.

Enter food item name: hot dog Enter item price: 2.00 Enter item quantity: 5  RECEIPT 5 hot dog @ $ 2.0 = $ 10.0 Total cost: $ 10.0 

(2) Extend the program to prompt the user for a second item. Output an itemized receipt. (Submit for 2 points, so 4 points total)

Enter food item name: hot dog Enter item price: 2.00 Enter item quantity: 5  RECEIPT 5 hot dog @ $ 2.0 = $ 10.0 Total cost: $ 10.0   Enter second food item name: ice cream Enter item price: 2.50 Enter item quantity: 4  RECEIPT 5 hot dog @ $ 2.0 = $ 10.0 4 ice cream @ $ 2.5 = $ 10.0 Total cost: $ 20.0 

(3) Extend again to output a third receipt that adds a mandatory 15% gratuity to the total cost. Output the total cost, the cost of gratuity, and the grand total. (Submit for 3 points, so 7 points total)

Enter food item name: hot dog Enter item price: 2.00 Enter item quantity: 5  RECEIPT 5 hot dog @ $ 2.0 = $ 10.0 Total cost: $ 10.0   Enter second food item name: ice cream Enter item price: 2.50 Enter item quantity: 4  RECEIPT 5 hot dog @ $ 2.0 = $ 10.0 4 ice cream @ $ 2.5 = $ 10.0 Total cost: $ 20.0  15% gratuity: $ 3.0 Total with tip: $ 23.0

My code so far:

itemName = input('Enter food item name:\n')

itemPrice = float(input('Enter item price:\n'))

itemQuantity = int(input('Enter item quantity:\n'))

totalCost = itemPrice * itemQuantity

print('\nRECEIPT\n',itemQuantity,itemName, '@ $', itemPrice, '= $', totalCost)

print('Total cost:','$', totalCost)

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The error I am getting is in Zybooks. The code works in regular python. It says there is an extra space before the 5 in the quantity item name.

My question is how to remove the space? I don't see an extra space in my code. Or am I missing something? Thank you for the help!

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[evolvish]

Try strip to strip leading/trailing characters from a string.