hi,

I'm writing a program using Python and it works with whole numbers (like 1,2,3,40, etc) but I would like to use numbers like .12, .13, .04, etc). Every time I run this program using these numbers it brings up an error message:

# A simple adding calculator (use numbers like .12, .14, etc)
a = int (raw_input ("enter first number: "))
b = int (raw_input ("enter second number: "))
print a + b

The error message I get is this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\horse program.py", line 1, in <module>
a = int (raw_input ("enter first number: "))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '.01'

How can I modify the program so it accepts numbers like .12, .13, .14....etc?

Thanks for your time!

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