Comparison between str and int fails

Question

thats the general idea of what i'm doing but i end up with this

print("How old are you?")
age = sys.stdin.readline()

time.sleep(2) #delay for 2 seconds

if age> 15: #if the age entered it oer 15 then
    print("Welcome to Narnia, please follow me.")

else :
    print("Please go home.")

TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

Please use `age=input("How old are you? ")` instead of your first two lines. — DYZ, Jan 22 '17 at 20:12
Conversion to int is missing. And do use the correct Python version tag next time — Moses Koledoye, Jan 22 '17 at 20:13
you mean `age = int(input(...))`. Convert to int or it won't work as expected in python 3. — Jean-François Fabre, Jan 22 '17 at 20:13
whats the correct python tag? im sorry im new to stackoverflow — Jason Lian, Jan 22 '17 at 20:14
@JasonLian You're on Python 3. Ints and strings are orderable in Python 2 — Moses Koledoye, Jan 22 '17 at 20:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 22 '17 at 20:14

0

you need to convert the age to an integer use

age = int(sys.stdin.readline())

that way the line you read from the input will be saved as an integer and will be of the right type to be compared to the integer 15

edited Jan 22 '17 at 20:14

DYZ

55,249
10
64
93

answered Jan 22 '17 at 20:14

Baptiste Pattyn

47
6

Comparison between str and int fails

1 Answers1