Can anyone explain why this code always prints "True" yet changing it to int or str only always gives "False"?

Question

while True:
user_input = input("type number or letter or anything")
if user_input == str or int:
print("good, right")
else:
print("No, bad!")

Answer 1

The if statement is wrong here.
First of all, user_input will always be a string, unless you convert it to some other type. Regardless of whether you do it or not, you can check for:
type(user_input) == str

Second of all, the construction of if requires full expressions to be compared and/or joined. So in this case, a proper statement would be:
if (type(user_input) == str) or (type(user_input) == int):

In this statement, the first part will be True, the second part False and so 'or' will output True.

Answer 2

Ah excellent, thankyou. Wasn't aware of type, am now :)