why doesn't it show as a type `float`

Question

I was just messing around with python command prompt when I discovered something, that I personally didn't know of.

This is one mystery that I'm trying to solve:

num = int(5) / 2

num == float # False

I found it weird that it didn't return True . So i tried with other operators.

num == int # False
num == str # False

they all return False, but when i check which type it is. It gives me this.

type(num) # Float

Shouldn't it have returned True when i compared it to the float operator?

Does anyone know why this is?

Answer 1

Your num contains the value 2.5 , it doesn't hold the type float so num == float can't be true

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What can be true is

• comparing to the value 2.5

  print(num == 2.5) # true

• comparing num's type to the float type

  print(type(num) == float) # true

• checking if the type of num is float

   print(isinstance(num, float)) # true

Answer 2

You're comparing an object(of type float ) with a class( float in this case). To get True, you should compare the type of num with float :

type(num) == float

You can also do:

isinstance(num, float)

which is better according to PEP8(Coding style convention for python).

Both will return True .

Answer 3

Actually num = int(5) / 2 gives you in result 2.5 not float, when you are checking the type of variable you have to write something like this

type(num) == float not num == float because num is 2.5 not float