Python help. If statement not working?

Question

I am trying to store a high-score in a txt doc and then read it to show it on screen. But when the score that the player got is higherreturning, I would like to change the high-score in the txt file. I know approximately how to do this but the If statement in my code has a little problem:
It keeps saying False... Here is the code:

score = 10
highscoreFile = open('Highscore.txt', 'r+')
HS = highscoreFile.read() #the HS is, let's say, 3
highscoreFile.close()
print 'Your score is', score
print 'The High-Score is', HS
if score > HS:
    print 'newHS'
    newHS = True
    highscoreFile = open('Highscore.txt', 'w+')
    highscoreFile.write('%s' %(score))
    highscoreFile.close()

NOTE: if I put '<' instead for the If statement, it returns True... please explain.

@user3580258 you can convert `string` to `int` using `int(HS)` — Nishant Nawarkhede, Apr 28 '14 at 07:36
The documentation has a purpose. One of which is that users should read it. http://docs.pythom.org — devnull, Apr 28 '14 at 07:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '14 at 07:33

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You are comparing int with string. The line

if score > HS:

should be ,

if score > int(HS):

answered Apr 28 '14 at 07:33

Nishant Nawarkhede

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '14 at 07:33

read reads the entire file, by default. And that will be treated as a string in Python. Quoting from the documentation,

If the size argument is negative or omitted, read all data until EOF is reached. The bytes are returned as a string object.

So, you have to explicitly convert the string to a number, like this

HS = int(highscoreFile.read())

Python help. If statement not working?

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