the error "invalid literal for int() with base 10:" keeps coming up

Question

I'm trying to write a very simple program, I want to print out the sum of all the multiples of 3 and 5 below 100, but, an error keeps accuring, saying "invalid literal for int() with base 10:" my program is as follows:

sum = ""
sum_int = int(sum)
for i in range(1, 101):
    if i % 5 == 0:
        sum += i 
    elif i % 3 == 0:
        sum += i
    else:
        sum += ""

print sum

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Python is not JavaScript: "" does not automatically convert to 0, and 0 does not automatically convert to "0".

Your program also seems to be confused between printing the sum of all the multiples of three and five and printing a list of all the numbers which are multiples of three and five.

Answer 2

Ok, I'm new to Python so I was doing quite a few silly things; anyway, I think I've worked it out now.

sum = 0
for i in range(1, 1001):
    if i % 5 == 0:
        sum += i 
    elif i % 3 == 0:
        sum += i

print sum

Answer 3

The "" are the cause of these problems.

Change

sum = ""

to

sum = 0

and get rid of

else:
 sum += ""