Learning Python: If condition executing all the time

Question

I am learning python and i can\'t figure out why the following program is printing your number is greater than what i thought even when the guessed number is sm

Answer 1

Here datatype of guess is string where as datatype of number is integer,

guess = raw_input ("Guess:")

so both are not same, hence if statement is executed every time

if guess > number:

as string datatype is considered greater than integer datatype in python.

Therefor you need to change the datatype of guess to int.

Following code will help you do this

guess = int(raw_input ("Guess:"))