Unsupported Operand *

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Hi, I'm using Indigo on a RPi,

I'm running a code and am getting the error

pi@raspberrypi ~/catkin_ws/src/servo $ rosrun servo pigpio_listner.py
[ERROR] [WallTime: 1423671413.743414] bad callback: <function set at 0x1f12670>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/indigo/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospy/topics.py", line 702, in _invoke_callback
    cb(msg)
  File "/home/pi/catkin_ws/src/servo/pigpio_listner.py", line 13, in set
    pulswidth=1000+angle*5.5556
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'Float32' and 'float'

Unhandled exception in thread started by 
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr

I'm not sure what this means, doesn't * mean multiply? Can't you multiply floats? I'll include the code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import rospy
from std_msgs.msg import Float32
import time
import pigpio

servos = 4 #GPIO number

pi=pigpio.pi()


def set(angle):
        pulswidth=1000+angle*5.5556
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(servos, pulswidth)

def listener():
        rospy.init_node('servo', anonymous=True)

        rospy.Subscriber("angle", Float32, set)

        rospy.spin

if __name__ == '__main__':
        try:
                listener()


# switch all servos off
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
                pigpio.set_servo_pulsewidth(servos, 0);
                pigpio.stop()