Why does this if else statement not work?

Question

I would like to know why my if else statement is not with the two inputs I added and I would like to know how to fix it

x = input('Please enter number')
y = input('Please enter another number')
if x + y > 5:
  print ('greater than')
elif x + y < 5:
  print ('less than')
elif x + y == 5:
  print ('equal to')

The input method returns a string. Adding `x` and `y` together will concatenate two strings. — Glycerine, Aug 15 '22 at 18:33
Next time you ask a question please add the error message you get. Here it should have been `TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'`. Even better: read the error message and try to understand it. — Matthias, Aug 15 '22 at 20:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 15 '22 at 18:33

input returns a string. You want to convert to int with int(input(...)). Altogether we get:

x = int(input('Please enter number'))
y = int(input('Please enter another number'))
if x + y > 5:
  print ('greater than')
elif x + y < 5:
  print ('less than')
elif x + y == 5:
  print ('equal to')

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '22 at 18:35

Your code is not working because python is taking the input from the user as a string not an integer, so it doesn't work because you can't perform mathematical operations on strings

The Code:

x = int(input('Please enter number'))
y = int(input('Please enter another number'))
if x + y > 5:
  print ('greater than')
elif x + y < 5:
  print ('less than')
elif x + y == 5:
  print ('equal to')

Why does this if else statement not work?

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