Trying something out

Question

I am trying to add input to this example from the Conditional Statement lesson for Python.

#sets the value of age
age = 22
if age >= 18:
# executed only if customer is over-age
print("Regular price")
else:
#executed only if age is less than 18
print("Discount")

I replaced “22” for “input()”
User gets prompted for age, but always returns an error message.

It should display “Discount” if user enters a number under 18 but it always returns an error message.

Answer 1

AniZaTo Input returns a string, and we are comparing a string to an integer. To fix this, we can convert the type of this string to an integer by doing something like this:

age = int(input())

If you dont understand try working it inside out, We ask for input then convert that value to an integer. remeber were not checking if the variable is an int were converting it, so if we type a number that cant be converted it will return an error.

Answer 2

YES! You beautiful person! Thank you! I just needed to convert the string to an integer! LOL so, simple once you see it