Identifying the data type of an input

Question

Hi I am trying to print the data type of a user input and produce a table like following:

ABCDEFGH = String, 1.09 = float, 0 = int, true = bool

Answer 1

input() will always return a string. If you want to see if it is possible to be converted to an integer, you should do:

try:
    int_user_var = int(user_var)
except ValueError:
    pass # this is not an integer

You could write a function like this:

def try_convert(s):
    try:
        return int(s)
    except ValueError:
        try:
            return float(s)
        except ValueError:
            try:
                return bool(s)
            except ValueError:
                return s

However, as mentioned in the other answers, using ast.literal_eval would be a more concise solution.