Do we have some inbuild function in python 2.7.9 which gets input both in integer & string using same function -

i using python 2.7.9 , new stack overflow.

input() used getting integer input user.
raw_input() used getting string input user.

i looking common function in python 2.7.9 allow user input either integer or string based on user wish

i using below code:

a=input("enter string")  error: traceback (most recent call last):   file "c:/users/eubcefm/desktop/important/python/2407/test.py", line 1, in <module>     a=input("enter string")   file "<string>", line 1, in <module> nameerror: name 'and' not defined 

you can use raw_input() , try convert int.

rawinput=raw_input("enter string :") try:     value=int(rawinput) except valueerror:     value=rawinput  print "type ", type(value) print "value ", value