Python: Doing math with floats- not working the way i wan't it

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In the project I am currently working on, I need to read data as float out of a text file, and add it with a

float(raw_input())

, but when I do something like

from sys import argv
script, filename = argv

target = open(filename) #say there is a value of 42 in this text file
indata = float(filename.read()) #reading it as float

input = float(raw_input('>' )) #saving a user input as float, say i enter in 0.5

result = indata + input #doing the math

as a result, i get 43, the rounded version, rather than the actual answer, 42.5. Can anyone help me? Thanks!

asked 1 min ago

Hanson

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Python: Doing math with floats- not working the way i wan't it