python - trying to generate math questions, comparissons not working

Question

can anyone help me? im pretty new to python and im trying to generate 10 files, each with increasingly harder questions. this code is for difficult 2. I dont want the answers in dif. 2 to be negative so whenever i get a second number bigger than the first i swap the two. for some reason some of them still come out with the first number bigger than the second. i added the "its less than" print statments for testing and it will detect the fact that its less than but wont do something about it.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65942206/trying-to-generate-math-questions-comparissons-not-working

Answer 1

Your issue is that you're casting your random numbers to a string before comparing their mathematical values. You need to compare them as integers then cast them to strings.