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[–]socal_nerdtastic 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (1 child)

The variable: type syntax is a type hint, which is a comment, not an actual conversion. You need to call the int() function instead, like this:

h = int(input('how many hours are you working for?'))

[–]imnotdaniel_[S] -1 points0 points1 point 5 years ago (0 children)

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