🔒 Why is string not a sting?

[mint hare]

I just need help understanding why this is happening ^^

for this code where I'm just checking the class:

date = "1 11 2111"

def magic(string):
    m,d,y = string.split()
    return type(y)

print(magic(date))```
the answer come out as:
`<class 'str'>`

which makes sense because inside my function m,d,y do act like strings

but when I use endswith
```py
date = "1 11 2111"

def magic(string):
    m,d,y = string.split()
    return y.endswith(int(m)*int(d))

print(magic(date))```
I get an error:
`TypeError: endswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not int`

so for it to work I end up specifying that y is a string when it already is one 😖 
why is this happening?

[inland rover]

@mint hare

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[hard vault]

You're casting both m and d to integers and multiplying them

then passing that result to endswith

return y.endswith(int(m)*int(d))

that result is also an integer

So you're passing an int.

Do you understand?

@mint hare

[mint hare]

oh now i do thank you very much!

[hard vault]

You're very welcome.

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