Avoiding traceback not through input filtering

[Mark17]

This might be a strange question. I have the beginning and the end... but not sure how to connect the two.

I'm writing a program that asks for a positive integer.

How can I make use of this code snippet:

if type(n) != int:
    raise TypeError("n must be a positive integer")
if n < 1:
    raise ValueError("n must be a positive integer")

The preceding line is:

n = input("What term of the Fibonacci Sequence would you like to know? ")

The problem is input takes a string, which means I will always get the TypeError. I want the errors to occur only if a bona fide decimal is entered (e.g. 1.5) or a negative integer or letters. I don't want the input filtered (e.g. automatically changed to a string).

If I can't do this then I can write a workaround to test for integer and/or string... but I wanted to try this different approach.

Thanks!

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Never mind. Not sure I know what I'm talking about with this!