TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int'

Question

In Python 2.7:

a=80
b=100

def status(hp, maxhp):
    print "You are at %r percent health." % hp*100/maxhp

status(a,b)

Returns:

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int'

I've already tried putting int() around each variable and each combination of variables.

Answer 1

% operator has higher precedence than * or / .

What you meant is:

"You are at %r percent health." % (hp * 100 / maxhp)

What you got is:

("You are at %r percent health." % hp) * 100 / maxhp

Edit: actually, I'm wrong. They have the same precedence and thus are applied left to right.

Docs: operator precedence

Answer 2

you need to wrap parens around the expression, so it is fully evaluated before trying to have the result substituted into the string.

something like:

print "my string with this '%d' value" % (hp * 100 / maxhp)