Greater than less than python

Question

I am doing a ranking type thing  what happens is I compare the score to the current score and if the score is lower then the current then the player has got a high score  but when using this code here          print  Score       str score       Compared to       str array x           if score  lt  array x                    Do stuff here   But even if score is 4 and array x  is 2 the if statement is still done   Am I doing something wrong   My understanding is that if score 4 and array x  is 2 then 4 is greater than 2 which means it comes back False     Heres the full code  def getRank array  score       rank   0     rankSet   False     for x in range 0  len array            print  Score       str score       Compared to       str array x           if score  lt  array x               if not rankSet                  rank   x                 print  Set rank to      str rank                  rankSet   True         elif score    array x  or score  gt  array x               rank    1             print  Rank higher than     str x      print  Rank       str rank      return rank   it prints this if score   4 and the array is made up of  1  2   Score   4  Compared to   1 Set rank to  0 Score   4  Compared to   2 Rank   0

User · Accepted Answer

Check to make sure that both score and array[x] are numerical types. You might be comparing an integer to a string...which is heartbreakingly possible in Python 2.x.

>>> 2 < "2"
True
>>> 2 > "2"
False
>>> 2 == "2"
False

Edit

Further explanation: How does Python compare string and int?

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