Newbie question about evaluating raw_input() responses
Kevin Xi
kevin.xgr at gmail.com
Wed May 22 02:52:30 EDT 2013
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:23:15 PM UTC+8, C. N. Desrosiers wrote:
> Hi,
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Hi,
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> I'm just starting out with Python and to practice I am trying to write a script that can have a simple conversation with the user.
>
So you may want to search the doc before you ask: http://docs.python.org
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> When I run the below code, it always ends up printing response to "if age > 18:" -- even if I enter a value below 18.
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> Can anyone point me to what I am doing wrong? Many thanks in advance.
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> age=raw_input('Enter your age: ')
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> if age > 18:
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> print ('Wow, %s. You can buy cigarettes.' % age)
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> else:
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> print ('You are a young grasshopper.')
You can either use `raw_input` to read data and convert it to right type, or use `input` to get an integer directly. Read this: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#raw_input
http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#input
Kevin
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