Input from keyboard in python

Question

I write a simple factorial function in python to know the factorial of n . As like we given n and it shows the factorial of n . But the problem is , i use raw_input function to get the value of n. But can't work with that . What can i do to do with raw_input ?

Answer 1

You need to cast the default string type to int

val = raw_input()    #val accepts a string 

val = int(raw_input())   #val takes integer input