Identifying the data type of an input

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Hi I am trying to print the data type of a user input and produce a table like following:

ABCDEFGH = String, 1.09 = float, 0 = int, true = bool

, etc. I'm using python 3.2.3 and I know I could use type() to get the type of the data but in python all user inputs are taken as strings and I don't know how to determine whether the input is a string or Boolean or integer or float. Here is that part of the code:

user_var = input("Please enter something: ")
print("you entered " + user_var)
print(type(user_var))

which always returns str for string. Appreciate any help

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Apeiron Kambyses

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input() will always return a string. If you want to see if it is possible to be converted to an integer, you should do:

try:
    int_user_var = int(user_var)
except ValueError:
    pass # this is not an integer

answered 51 secs ago

Tom Leese

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