Can we input something in a data type other than string in Python?? I cant seem to carry out arithmetic operation on input var.

Answer 1

thank you for explaining it so well 😃

Answer 2

Input something other than string?

x = int(input()) # integer input
y = int(input())
print("Sum = {}".format(x + y))

PS:
Prachi Pandit, if you want to input data that is not a string then, Yes, you will have to type-cast it!
Note that (x + y) is an integer. That is why, I used .format() to convert it to string 😉

Answer 3

so do we need to typecast it every time? in order to carry out operations?

Answer 4

and is it by default input in a string type?? and I can't understand why you included 'format' in your output