# PyTeal App.localPut does not work as I expected

**URL:** <https://forum.algorand.co/t/pyteal-app-localput-does-not-work-as-i-expected/6815>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** teal, smart-contracts\
**Created:** [May 9, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/pyteal-app-localput-does-not-work-as-i-expected/6815 "2022-05-09T11:08:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![thangld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@thangld](https://forum.algorand.co/u/thangld)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/pyteal-app-localput-does-not-work-as-i-expected/6815/1 "2022-05-09T11:08:35Z")

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My code:

```auto
    Seq([
        Assert(
            Txn.application_args[0] == Bytes("b")
        ),
        App.localPut(Int(0), Bytes("T1"), Btoi(Txn.application_args[1])),
        App.localPut(Int(0), Bytes("T2"), Btoi(Txn.application_args[2])),
        Int(1)
    ])

```

Script:

```auto
export TOKEN1_INDEX="353"
export TOKEN2_INDEX="354"
goal app optin --app-id 310 --app-arg "str:b" --app-arg "str:${TOKEN1_INDEX}" --app-arg "str:${TOKEN2_INDEX}" --from "FKZGEODV5DEUZAEOHQKWUZL4W27LTRW45MQ6O5VDB4762EG23IRA2KCOKQ"

```

Result:

```auto
goal app read --app-id 310 --local --from FKZGEODV5DEUZAEOHQKWUZL4W27LTRW45MQ6O5VDB4762EG23IRA2KCOKQ
{
  "T1": {
    "tt": 2,
    "ui": 3354931
  },
  "T2": {
    "tt": 2,
    "ui": 3354930
  }
}

```

My expectation:

```auto
{
  "T1": {
    "tt": 2,
    "ui": 353
  },
  "T2": {
    "tt": 2,
    "ui": 354
  }
}

```

What am I doing wrong here? I’m new. Thanks in advance! ❤

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**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.algorand.co/ben/32/1979_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.algorand.co/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/pyteal-app-localput-does-not-work-as-i-expected/6815/2 "2022-05-09T11:17:46Z")

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In the goal app call you’re specifying `str:` as the encoding, that means itll take the token index integer and convert it to bytes representing the string where each character is a byte (you want to specify int).

In the program logic you’re taking that string and trying to make it into an integer but btoi does not convert ASCII to int, it expects the 8 byte representation of a uint64.

When you read the state from the contract you get back a value corresponding to the decimal representation of what the uint64 value of those bytes from the string would be.

This is all solved by changing your app args to int to ensure they’re encoded correctly when passing them to the contract.

For reference:

> **[Encoding and Decoding - Algorand Developer Portal](https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-details/encoding/)**
>
> Algorand Developer Docs, SDKs, REST APIs, CLI tools, ecosystem projects, metrics dashboard and sample code, how-tos, and news from the Algorand developer community

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**Author:** ![thangld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@thangld](https://forum.algorand.co/u/thangld)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/pyteal-app-localput-does-not-work-as-i-expected/6815/3 "2022-05-09T11:38:56Z")

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Amazing! Thanks for quick and detailed answer bro. It works!