How do I use inputstream in python 3? [duplicate]

Question

I have this line of code:

incoming = input("Type in 1 or 2")

if incoming == 1:
    print ("you entered 1")
elif incoming == 2:
    print ("you entered 2")

this worked perfectly fine when I used python 2... on my mac, but on windows with python 3, not so well.

Can anybody explain this to me?

That's because in python 2 input(prompt) was roughly equivalent to eval(raw_input(prompt)). — Ilja Everilä
– Ilja Everilä, Commented Jun 20, 2016 at 9:54
With that in mind, read "Is using eval in python a bad practice?" — Ilja Everilä
– Ilja Everilä, Commented Jun 20, 2016 at 9:58

Jaxian · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20 09:56:24Z

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Python 3.x doesn't evaluate and convert data types the way Python 2.x did. So, you are going to have to explicitly convert your user's input to an integer like this:

incoming = int(input("Type 1 or 2: "))

answered Jun 20, 2016 at 9:56

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