[Tutor] Odd result from function call

[Alan Gauld]

"Ben Ganzfried" <ben.ganzfried at gmail.com> wrote 

> x = input("First x is: ")
> y = input("First y is: ")

input() reads strings

> compare(x,y)

the character '1' is less than the character '5' so far as Python 
is concerned

> When I do simply compare(10, 5) from the shell, 

You are using integers.
What happens if you use strings?

>>> compare('10','5')

HTH,


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