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Python print radical sign in though getting type error about not being able to typecast bytes

Here is the error I'm receiving:

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The code I am using in repl.it is the same one I wrote in Techsmart ((a browser based IDE for my class)( and worked perfectly:

import math
square = []
perfect_squares = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225]
num = int(input(""))
for i in perfect_squares:
    if num % i == 0:
        square.append(i)
coefficient = max(square)
radicand = num // coefficient
coefficient = int(math.sqrt(coefficient))
if num in perfect_squares:
    print(int(math.sqrt(num)))
elif coefficient == 1:
    print(u"\u221A".encode('utf-8'), num, sep='')
else:
    print(coefficient, u"\u221A".encode('utf-8'), radicand, sep='')
Solution

  • You might correct the encoding of the radical symbol in this line print(coefficient, u"\u221A".encode('utf-8'), radicand, sep='') as follows.

    import math
square = []
perfect_squares = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225]
num = int(input("Enter a number: "))
for i in perfect_squares:
    if num % i == 0:
        square.append(i)
coefficient = max(square)
radicand = num // coefficient
coefficient = int(math.sqrt(coefficient))
if num in perfect_squares:
    print(int(math.sqrt(num)))
else:
    print(coefficient, "\u221A", radicand, sep='')