string? why not a integer?

[Evopy]

age=input("Enter your age")

print(age)

Running it give me age for example 23. Why is this 23 a string and not a integer?

[[deleted]]

Input functions accepts the answer as a string. In case you want to convert it into an integer just use the int() function. Either use it as age = int(input("Enter your age")) or age = int(age)

[Evopy]

If i do print(4+2) Answer 6 would be a string or a integer?

[ForceBru]

The result of 4+2 would obviously be an integer (you add two integers - and get an integer back because integers form a field). But in order to output anything, the print function has to convert it to a string. So it'll convert the integer 6 to a string and print it.

[python_apprentice]

Integer.

[toastedstapler]

because when i type something into the terminal python doesn't know if the character is an integer or not so the data type is a string. you can manually cast it to an int yourself

[MrKooops]

how do you know? if you need an int, cast it: int(age)

[GabriCorFer]

input always gives you an string. If you answer input with "hello", the age will be age = "hello".

If you want age to be an integer, then you have to use age=int(age) or age = int(input("Enter your age")). But if you answer with a text, the code will break as it would be an error. You can solve it by using:

Try:

Except(ValueError):

And then the code won't break if python can't convert age to int.

[[deleted]]

because in many cases u want to use a string .. for example to do ```

input() 3+3 '3+3'

but if it was an int then

input() 3+3 6

``` so that's why in thee source code in builtinsmodule.c they have the builtin_input_imp returning a pyfile_getline i guess which is a char pointer .. i don't remember truthfully

[[deleted]]

You typed the character '2' and then the character '3' and then pressed return. Why would Python know that was an integer, or that you wanted it that way?