Could someone please explain or help with this

[norona]

Hello community, again, i am struggling with something very basic. Ane help is greatly appreciated. TIA

x = input("Enter a number between 1 & 5: ")

if x > 0 and x < 6:
    print("You have entered " + (str(x)) + "!")
else:
    print("You entered the wrong number!")

Error:
TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

Seems to be something common as i have found millions of results when googling it but unfortunately not the solution

Yoriz write Oct-20-2021, 05:22 AM:
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[DPaul]

Hi,

This question gets asked about once a week.
What is the type of x in x = input("...").
A string or a number?
This explains the TypeError message.

Paul

[ibreeden]

Hi Norona,
If the question is asked once a week, perhaps it should be explained better. I will try it this week .
A string (type str) is string of letters, or characters as programmers call them. You cannot calculate with strings.

>>> s1 = "123"
>>> s2 = "456"
>>> print(s1 + s2)
123456

An integer (type int) is a whole number (so without decimal point). You can calculate with integers.

>>> i1 = 123
>>> i2 = 456
>>> print(i1 + i2)
579

Now you will understand you cannot compare these two types.

>>> if s1 < i2:
...     print("smaller")
... 

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

If you need to compare these, you must either use the int() method to cast the string to an integer, or use the str() method to cast the integer to a string.

>>> if int(s1) < i2:
...     print("smaller")
... 
smaller

You should note the result of the input() function is always a string. So in your code you do: "(str(x))", but that is unnecessary because "x" is already a string.
You should also read how to use BBcode. When you post you should enclose code in [python] tags and there are also tags for errors and output.

And please read the tutorial about strings and numbers.

[norona]

Thank you so much for the explanation, it makes sense to me now