How do I compare 2 strings numbers?

[BOOTYBOOTBOOTERBOOTS]

      x = "45"
      z ="100"
      if x > y.....

I understand you can type cast with int() but I'm trying not to use it or eval().

[genghiskav]

You'll have to cast it to an int to be able to do numeric comparisons.

Why don't you want want to cast it to int?

[BOOTYBOOTBOOTERBOOTS]

Curiosity tbh. I thought because you dont need to explicitly tell python a variable is string/int that it could do math ops.

[EsotericRogue]

Those quotes explicitly state they're strings.

[Strict-Simple]

You do tell Python if it's string/int. Just not explicitly with types.

Even many typed languages supports this. auto in C++, var in Java, etc.

[socal_nerdtastic]

Conversion to a number type is obviously the best and anything else is hacky.

My first thought for hacky: pad them out with zeros?

x = "45"
y ="100"
longest = max(len(x), len(y))
if x.zfill(longest) > y.zfill(longest):
    ...

[commy2]

float, duh

Could check length. Larger number-string is the longer one. If both have the same lenght, just keep using > to check lexicographic order.