I’m writing a simple Python program to find the data type using type function.
x=input("what is your name?")
print(type(x))
It gives the output:
<class 'str'>
But when I add the len function"
x=len(input("what is your name?"))
print(type(x))
It gives the output:
<class int>
why is that? Can someone explain to me? Does len function change it to int type? what I have been told is len function works with string types only if we wanna find out the number of character in string.
>Solution :
The len function returns the length of the string, which happens to be an integer.
When the object is a string, the len() function returns the number of
characters in the string.
Learn more about the len function here: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_func_len.asp
To clear up things :-
input_string = input("what is your name?")
input_string_length = len(x)
print(type(input_string)) # <class 'str'>
print(type(input_string_length)) # <class int>
Thus, as you can see, the input string is not affected in any way and is not converted to the int type.