Why does the If statement not working with list[0]?

January 15, 2022

I am programming a Discord bot and it should have a birthday feature. I have some problem with the if statement and I just can’t figure out what could be wrong there. Can I even check the user input like that?

await ctx.send("What is your birthday? Please use MM/DD format.")

    msg = await self.bot.wait_for('message')
    try:
        date = msg.content.split('/')
        if date[0] > 12 or date[0] < 1:
            return await ctx.send(f"Aborting... Invalid date.")

    except:
        pass

>Solution :

you need to convert date[0] to be an int:

await ctx.send("What is your birthday? Please use MM/DD format.")

    msg = await self.bot.wait_for('message')
    try:
        date = msg.content.split('/')
        if int(date[0]) > 12 or int(date[0]) < 1:
            return await ctx.send(f"Aborting... Invalid date.")

    except:
        pass