I have a very simple script, the goal is that if someone enters a number between 40 and 49 for raw_input, the value of ageRisk should change from 0 to 0.004
age = raw_input("Enter your age: ")
ageRisk = 0
if age >= 40 and age < 50:
ageRisk = 0.004
print ageRisk
However when I run this script entering 44 for the raw_input, the value for ageRisk remains at 0. Why is this?
This is because the user's input is a string. To fix this, change your line age = raw_input("Enter your age: ") into age = int(raw_input("Enter your age: "))
Try changing this:
age = raw_input("Enter your age: ")
to:
age = int(raw_input("Enter your age: "))
The default for input is to treat everything as a string, and if not converted your logical does not see the numerical value it needs to reassign the values.
Your raw_input is taking in a number as a string. to resolve this, convert the input into an integer.
age = int(input("Enter your age: "))
In Python 2, raw_input() returns a string, not an integer.
You need to wrap your raw_input() in an int() call to convert it.
int(raw_input()) takes user input and returns an integer (if one was entered).
