numberchk=(int(input("Enter a Roman numeral or a Decimal numeral:" )))
def int2roman(number):
numerals={1:"I", 4:"IV", 5:"V", 9: "IX", 10:"X", 40:"XL", 50:"L",
90:"XC", 100:"C", 400:"CD", 500:"D", 900:"CM", 1000:"M"}
result=""
for value, numeral in sorted(numerals.items(), reverse=True):
while number >= value:
result += numeral
number -= value
return result
if numberchk==int:
print(int2roman(int(numberchk)))
else:
print("error")

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3Because `numberchk==int` is always False. – Ashwini Chaudhary Feb 24 '14 at 12:53
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Please indent your code and paste it with the correct code markdown. – RedX Feb 24 '14 at 12:57
4 Answers
Use isinstance(numberchk, int)
instead, because int
is a type but numberchk
is an instance of that type.
Since int(input(...
always returns an integer as long as it can, you don't have to check it using if-else. To suppress error raising if input is not an integer, use try-except
as @poke mentioned.
You can also use a while-loop
and break
to request the user input repeatedly until you get an legal input:
while True:
try:
numberchk=int(input("Enter a Roman numeral or a Decimal numeral:" ))
break
except ValueError:
print('error')
print(int2roman(numberchk))

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if numberchk==int:
This will check if numberchk
is equal to the int
type. It will not check if numberchk
is an integer (which you probably want to do). The correct way to check its type would be this:
if isinstance(numberchk, int):
However, this won’t make sense either. The way you get numberchk
is by calling int()
on a string:
numberchk=int(input(…))
So numberchk
will always be an int. However, calling int()
on a string that is not a number can fail, so you probably want to catch that error to find out whether or not the input was a number:
try:
numberchk = int(input("Enter a Roman numeral or a Decimal numeral:"))
except ValueError:
print('Entered value was not a number')
But this will again will be problematic, as—at least judging by the message you’re printing—you also want to accept Roman numerals, which can’t be converted to integers by int
. So you should also write a function that takes a Roman numeral and converts it into an int.

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Check the integer type instead of matching variable with int
.
You can check type of variable with isinstance
method.

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Try using isdigit() function.
replace this part on your code
if numberchk==int:
with
if numberchk.isdigit():

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