[Tutor] Find the Greatest number out of 3 (Python 3.7.0)

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/10/2020 00:31, Adam Eyring wrote:
> What's happening is that the print statements output strings.

That should be the *input* functions, not print...

>>    number1 = input('Number1: ')
>>    number2 = input('Number2: ')
>>    number3 = input('Number3: ')

So these are all strings: "423", "23", "43"

And the greater/less than comparisons on strings
are different to numbers!


>>    if number3 > number2 and number3 > number1:
>>        print('Number 3')

You could rewrite the above to the arguable more readable:

if number 2 < number3 > number1:
    print....


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