How do I use inputstream in python 3?

Question

I have this line of code:

incoming = input("Type in 1 or 2")

if incoming == 1:
    print ("you entered 1")
elif incoming == 2:
    print ("you entered 2")

this worked perfectly fine when I used python 2... on my mac, but on windows with python 3, not so well.

Can anybody explain this to me?

That's because in python 2 `input(prompt)` was roughly equivalent to `eval(raw_input(prompt))`. — Ilja Everilä, Jun 20 '16 at 09:54
With that in mind, read ["Is using eval in python a bad practice?"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1832940/is-using-eval-in-python-a-bad-practice) — Ilja Everilä, Jun 20 '16 at 09:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '16 at 09:56

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Python 3.x doesn't evaluate and convert data types the way Python 2.x did. So, you are going to have to explicitly convert your user's input to an integer like this:

incoming = int(input("Type 1 or 2: "))

answered Jun 20 '16 at 09:56

Jaxian

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