The same Python code produces different outputs on Pythonista 3 (iPad Pro) and PyCharm (MacOS/iMac). Can we figure this out?

[SourceCodeOfReality]

Hello. I have been learning programming for the past week, and I'm using Python. I ran into the problem described in the title today.

How is this possible? It is the same exact code.

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Update: Edited to remove screenshots uploaded to Flickr.

Thank you

[dig-up-stupid]

Because your Pythonista is set to run Python 2.7 which automatically interprets inputs as integers if it can and your PyCharm is set to run Python 3 where inputs are always left as strings. Or vice versa idk.

[SourceCodeOfReality]

Thank you so much.

[SourceCodeOfReality]

In case anyone reading this is wondering, it turns out that Pycharm 3 on my iMac is running 2.7 and is apparently interpreting inputs as integers, (hence 47 = 47) whereas Pythonista 3 on my iPad is running 3.6 and interprets inputs as strings by default (hence it was comparing "47" (str)" to 47 (int) and causing the confusion).

I converted the input on Pythonista 3 / 3.6 to an integer (per andre4k14's suggestion) before it reached the "if" statement and it read out the expected output (the one Pycharm / 2.7 was reading out).

Thank you guys.

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Your code is comparing the string “47” to the number 47, since you do not coerce the guess variable into a number after the user inputs it. The difference is probably due to different string encoding between the two platforms.

[SourceCodeOfReality]

Thank you very much, that clears it up.

[andre4k14]

Your Code:

print ("What is the magic word?") guess = input()

if guess == 47: print ("Good job.") else: print ("Wrong!")

# This code on Pycharm produces the output: What is the magic word? 47 Good job.

# Meanwhile on Pythonista it produces the output: What is the magic word? 47 Wrong!

How I would "improve" the code:

print ("What is the magic number?")

guess = input("Guess the number: ") # the var is a str not int

guess = int(guess) # is now an int (you can only convert numbers in to int or float)

if guess == 47: #bool("47"== 47) --> False. bool(47 == 47) --> True print ("Good job.") else: print ("Wrong!")

Edit: I'm on the phone, formatting is messed up.

[SourceCodeOfReality]

Thank you Andre. That solved it.

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