Python code not validating number

Question

1==1 returned false

#you input something that ends in 11111
z=input()
print(z[-1],'cnp')

v=1
print(v,'rest')

if z[-1] == v:
print('yes')
else:
print('nono')

Answer 1

z[-1] is character
v is a number so it teturn false

try
if int( z[-1]) == v :

else take v = '1'

Answer 2

Solved it just now
i did

b=z[-1]
if int(b)==v:
print ('yyy')
else:
print('nnn')

I needed it to be int