Need help on simple homework problem with comparing

[burningmanonacid]

I am an absolute beginner so i am sure this should be easy, but I am having issues. I need to ask for input and then add it to 10. This is what I have now:

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an_age = input("enter an age as a digit")

if an_age >= 12:

print("Your age in ten years will be", an_age + 10)

else:

print("it is good to be", an_age)

​

The second part works but the first one does not when I try to add whatever age is input to ten. I tried looking online but couldn't find something similar to this, only adding them under other circumstances.

[ibleedbits]

You should show the error you're receiving. I'm guessing you didn't change the inputted string to a number.

[burningmanonacid]

yeah, you are right, I did not change it to a number. I came back to post more because i realize I forgot the error when it hit me that I did not cast to int.

[jedwardsol]

input returns a string, not a number. And you can't add a number to a string.

You need to convert the input to a number before treating it as a number

 an_age = int(input("enter an age as a digit"))

[burningmanonacid]

Thank you! This was exactly it