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:"))

Answer 2

Catching an exception might help as well if you are guessing a large number and you accidentally hit a letter you don't really want your program to bail out.

while guess != number:

    if guess > number:
        print("Your guess is greater than i thought")

    else:
        print("Your guess is smaller than i thought")
    try:    
        guess = int(raw_input ("Another Guess:"))
        tries = tries+1
    except ValueError:
        print "Input must be numeric"
print "You guess it right in %d turns." %tries

Answer 3

I didn't know this until just now, but as it turns out, a string will always be "greater than" an integer in Python:

>>> "0" > 1
True

All you need to do is replace

guess = raw_input ("Guess:")

with

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

Answer 4

I think this is because raw_input is considered a string, so Python assigns it a value based on the char values. Try writing int(raw_input("text")) and see if it solves your problem.

Answer 5

raw_input will return a string. You need to parse it into a number for the compare to work properly. I think that's just int(raw_input(...))