Else statement not working Python

Question

A part of the program tests if the variable is int or string. If it's a string do this, else do that. Even though I seperated them, it still runs the both statements. I entered a string, but it tries to loop over range(String) which causes error. Why won't the else statement work?

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Answer 1

Instead checking type(statement)=="str" ,check for the string the following way,

if isinstance(statement,str):