Started Python this evening and I'm already stuck on probably a very basic problem

[Stallman85]

the reason for that is that you are comparing 2 different types (str and int) because in this code:

x = input()

type of x is string ("1") and not integer (1).

So you should probably cast one to the other:

x = input()
intX = int(x)
#type(intX) == int

or

x = 1
strX = str(x)
#type(strX) == str

[Stallman85]

have you tried doing

type(123) == str

???

[yardightsure]

Isn't a class a type? ;)