[moineee]

I am new in python and in the area of "Unicode". I was trying to add 100 and 50 to get a result 150 with the following:

>>> cord1 = '100'
>>> cord2 = 50
>>> cord1 + cord2
Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found

How do I convert '100' into integer from Unicode before I try to add cord1 and cord2? Any suggestions? Thanks...

[jethro.fn]

int() converts a string (plain or Unicode) into an integer, if it can. It raises ValueError if it cannot recognize the string.

>>> cord1 = int("100")
>>> cord2 = int(50)   # Works for integers, too.
>>> cord1 + cord2
 150
>>>