[SOLVED] Using player input as points?

[ZeAwesomeHobo]

I'm trying to save player input as persistent data that can later be used in an if clause. Reading through a ton of threads, I found out how to save the player input--

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q "How tall are you in centimetres?"

        python:
            pheight = renpy.input("How tall are you in centimetres?", exclude='{QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNMqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm}', length=3)

            pheight = pheight.strip() or __("170")

            persistent.playerheight = pheight

            renpy.save_persistent()

        $ persistent.playerheight = [pheight]

But when trying to use the variable as points in an if clause, it ignores it, or makes the value impossibly high.

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label start:
    "..."
    call heightcheck
    "..."

label heightcheck:
    if pheight <= 170:
        "You are [pheight]cm. You are below 170cm."
    elif pheight == 170:
        "You are [pheight]cm. You are 170cm."
    elif pheight >= 170:
        "You are [pheight]cm. You are above 170cm."

    return

Even if the player input is "1," the heightcheck label will still take the "elif pheight > 170" path. Additionally, when the game is restarted and ran through with persistent data, the [pheight] value is presented as "[u'1']" in the textbox rather than just the entered value. I'm not one to assume, but it seems as though player input is not saved as a pure number value and cannot be used as points in this way...?

[Jackkel Dragon]

It looks like you're saving as a string, so it's doing string comparisons in most cases. Not sure why it's not just giving errors, really.

You may need to cast the string to an integer with

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int("100") ## converts "100" to 100

[ZeAwesomeHobo]

Thank you so much! I had to do some quick research into integers but it works!

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python:
            pheight = renpy.input("How tall are you in centimetres?", exclude='{QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNMqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm}', length=3)
            pheight = pheight.strip() or __("80")
            pheight = int(pheight) ##Adding this line fixed the issues.
            persistent.playerheight = pheight
            renpy.save_persistent()