Error while calculating taxes: TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'

Question

I try to calculate my taxes using python, but I get:

TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'

Code:

price_without_taxes = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='__next']/div/main/div/div/div/p/span").text
print('LE PRIX EST DE :' + price_without_taxes)
tps = price_without_taxes * 0.05
tvq = price_without_taxes * 0.09975

price_with_taxes = float((price_without_taxes + tps + tvq))
print("Sous-Total: " + "%1.2f" % price_with_taxes + "$\n")
print("Livraison: " + str(10) + "$\n")
print("Total: " + "%1.2f" % price_with_taxes + "$\n")

Answer 1

Your variable, prices_without_taxes is a string rather than an int/float. You can not multiply text by floats. You would have to convert your string to an int/float first: float(prices_without_taxes) * (multiple)