[prog] why doesn't this program work? (python)

[Jacinta Richardson]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Jacinta Richardson wrote:

> 
> It did come with indentation... perhaps it got stripped by some mailers?
> 
> Anyway I'm wondering whether the problem might be here:
> 
> guess = input("Guess a number: ")
> 
> In Perl at least, if I were to enter 
> 3
> that would be interpreted as "3\n" which would never be the same as "3".

I take it back.  "3" is never the same as "3\n" in string comparisons, but
"3\n" is always the same as 3 in integer comparisons so please ignore me.
Unless of course python doesn't have the same casting behaviours.
I have no idea what I was thinking when I made the above comment.

		Jacinta

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