🔒 Related if/else

[civic steeple]

I'm a beginner and was practicing if else conditionals but I'm facing a problem in the picture you can see if 2 it gonna show congratulations you will not be able to survive
And in the terminal I'm entering 2 but still it's not seeing if condition and directly showing else

[pearl cargo]

@civic steeple

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[civic steeple]

Caves = "I was going in a jungle and found two cavés \n . I will need to choose one because its night \n and ill have to choose one location \n. Cave A have footprints of a animal \nand from Cave 2 Cooking smell is coming outside"
print(Caves)

a = (input('Enter your choice cave 1 or 2: '))

if(a == 2):
  print("Congratulations! You are not gonna survive")
  
elif(a == 3):
  print("You entered a no. which is not given , it must be 1 or 2")
  
elif(a == 0):
  print("You entered a no. which is not given , it must be 1 or 2")
  
else:
  print("Congratulations , you survived")

[civic steeple]

Here's code

[jagged canyon]

follow this

[civic steeple]

Hm what do you mean?

[jagged canyon]

```py
...typing code like this makes it easier for others to read...
```

[civic steeple]

Ohk

[civic steeple]

Done

[jagged canyon]

ok so you know the difference between a string and an integer?

[civic steeple]

Yeah

String is immutable

[jagged canyon]

as in, you know the difference between "2" and 2 right?

[civic steeple]

Yesh

Do I'll have to make it a string

[jagged canyon]

print(f"{a=}") # a='2'
print(a==2)    # False
if(a == 2):
  print("Congratulations! You are not gonna survive")

i added some print statements to help you see what a is

[civic steeple]

Oh I see

Now working after adding '' around 2

[jagged canyon]

so

there are actually 2 ways

[civic steeple]

Ty

Ok

[jagged canyon]

of solving this problem

can you think of the other way?

[civic steeple]

Nope

Removing ' from a input thing?

[jagged canyon]

from the user's input, right?

i.e. making it a number

you can do int("1") to give you 1

but note that int("not a number")will give you an error

but I digress, shall we consider your question answered?

[compact bough]

You know also use
type()
For know what data type it is

[lavish moss]

you really don't need parenthesis around everything, just a few things there really needs the parenthesises

[pearl cargo]

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