APR Interest Calculator help

I'm taking an introductory course to python and I'm having really frustrating time as this is very simple and i have done programming much more complex and just getting really frustrated on being hung up on this.

So my assignment is to create a calculator that does APR interest using the formulahttp://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/cisc101f/Winter2012/Assn1/Equation.JPG

Where A is the monthly payment, P is the total amount borrowed (the principal), n is the number of months for repayment and i is the monthly interest rate. You can calculate the monthly interest rate by dividing the annual interest rate ("APR") by 12.
For example, to borrow $30,000 (P) for a 10 year term (n = 120) with an APR interest rate of 6% (i = 0.06 / 12 = 0.005), A calculates to be $333.06 - the monthly payment. The total interest paid over 10 years (always depressing!) = 120 * $333.06 - $30,000 = $9,967.38.


def main():
print("****************************************")
print("Mortgage Calculator v1.0")
print("****************************************")
print("")
principal = float(input("Principal Amount "))
years = int(input("Input number of years "))
interest = float(input("Input interest percentage "))
interest = (interest/100)/12
months = years*12
monthly_payments = principal*interest/1-(1+interest)**-months
print(apr)
print("After", Years, "years at", format(interest, '.0%'), " interest ", "total is", format(Total, '.2f'))
print("Monthly payments will be", monthly_payments)
print("Total interest will amount to", format(total_interest, '.2f'))
main()

So just as a starting point it may be helpful to have another function to handle calculations and a function to handle input and call the calculating function.

Not sure which variables you'd want to have but here:


def apr(principal, years, interest):
top = principal*interest;
bottom = 1 - (1+interest)**(-1*years);
return round(top/bottom, 2);

def main():
print apr(1000, 1, 0.06);
print apr(1000, 2, 0.06);
print apr(1000, 3, 0.06);

main();

This probably is incorrect, but it's helpful to show you a cleaner way to format your code to find issues much faster. And you can unit test easier.

If you want to test you can type 'python' import your code (if the filename is 'apr' then 'import apr' and test like so 'apr.apr(principal, years, interest)';

That should help you test faster.

Now you handle the input. Make sure you convert to int() or float() where appropriate.