3rd Day Coding Question

Question

Hello I have started to study python and just coding in general this week. I started going over just the beginning courses (literal 3 days long at programming in general.) Decided to step off into my own side project to bring all the beginning stuff I learned together, with a little bit of googling for the else/if, by making a simple "Math Genius" encounter.
My issue is:
I have
y=input()
print (y)
thinking that it will print y as an equation for python to solve and print the answer... I guess not haha... ha
is there a way to get python to read the input for y as an equation and solve it?
here is my whole code so far
print ('Hello! I am a math genius! Is there a problem I could help you with? (Yes or No)')
x = str(input())
if x in ('yes','Yes','y','Y','YES'):
print ('Great! What is your problem!')
y = input()
print (y)
else:
print('Well then you\'re my problem!')
exit

Answer 1

yes exactly ! so instead of priting 10+2 im trying to get it to print the solution.
So im trying to get it to just print 8

Answer 2

Where did you tested your attempt?
Becsuse your code works fine here:
With input example:
yes
wetter
Or another input:
no
https://code.sololearn.com/czuPMs8NtgPu/?ref=app

Answer 3

Here this works too. I got in above mentioned code the andwer:
Hello! I am a math genius! Is there a problem I could help you with? (Yes or No)
Great! What is your problem!
10+2

Answer 4

An input you can give in the terminal which should open when the code is running in visual studio code

Answer 5

For the second input i was testing writing it out as an equation
so first input being yes
second input being a problem like '10+2'
and then having python take the second input and providing a solution over just printing the equation.
I am testing in visual code studio with the python extensions
i did get the yes no responses to work correctly :D

Answer 6

The eval() function might do what you want.
print(eval(y))

Answer 7

Thank you so much Brian! Thats Exactly what i was looking for!