TypeError: must be real number, not str

Question

Whenever I rum the code, error message "TypeError: must be real number, not str" displays

from math import*

num1 = input("Enter the num ")
num2 = input("Enter the power ")

def exponent_func( num1 ,  num2):
     return(pow ( str(num1) , str(num2) ))  

exponent_func(num1 ,  num2)

Solution

Use int not str

from math import*

num1 = input("Enter the num ")
num2 = input("Enter the power ")

def exponent_func( num1 ,  num2):
     return(pow ( int(num1) , int(num2) ))  

exponent_func(num1 ,  num2)

Comments

[pault]

You're casting the inputs to pow as str

[pault]

and what if someone wanted to get the square root of num1?

[Amy]

Then we would use sqrt(x)

[pault]

@Amy what if someone wanted to get num1 raised to the power 0.1? I'm not being pedantic here, but it's important to understand why what you did does not work and what the limitations of this answer are. Edit: It's also worth reading Why is import * bad?

[Amy]

Well this is my first day into Python programming and I don't have much experience in programming so this was just to get familiar with the syntax. I have updated my code to use float instead of int Thanks for the link!