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. You need to evaluate the string to get some Python value:

>>> type(eval(raw_input()))
23423

>>> type(eval(raw_input()))
"asdas"

>>> type(eval(raw_input()))
1.09

>>> type(eval(raw_input()))
True

If you want safety (here user can execute arbitrary code), you should use ast.literal_eval:

>>> import ast
>>> type(ast.literal_eval(raw_input()))
342

>>> type(ast.literal_eval(raw_input()))
"asd"