What is the issue? Why output is not 1.

Question

Code:-

a = bool(input("f1: "))
b = bool(input("f2: "))
print(a+b)

Output:-
f1: True
f2: False
2

Answer 1

the reason of this behaviour is NOT because input() functions returns always True. input function returns always a string.

the input we give in the sample code is `True` and `False`. this is a string, and not a real boolean value. any non-empty string is considered as a `truthy value`, so when we use `bool()` to convert our input it returns True, which is a value of 1. we can input whatever string we like, the result will always be 1 for each of the input. the result of 1 + 1 = 2

so if we input:

`eggs and spam`
`tomato`

the result will be same, as both are non-empty strings

Answer 2

Anshul Khangar

Because input() function always returns String so bool(String) will be always True

So bool(input()) = 1

So a = 1 + 1 = 2