Question

I am getting two strings in the following way which contain integer values. I have tried all options but always got False as a result.

    string1    = element.__dict__.get('layer')    # '7'

    temp_string2,temp_string3=temp_key.split(':') # temp_key = '7:12'

    if string1 == temp_string2:
          print "data found"

I did not get True although both contain the same value. Can I have some input regarding this?

Answer 1

Based on what I saw in the comment stream

Could you add print repr(string1), repr(temp_string2) to your code to
show us what the variables contain?

I got 7 and ‘7’. How will I fix this isssue. why is this diffirence.I
got understanding that it would be string in both case

Its evident, you are comparing an integer with a string.

If print repr(string1), returns 7 and print repr(temp_string2) returns "7" then string1 , which is

string1    = element.__dict__.get('layer')

should be an integer

So you have to convert string1 to integer before comparing

if str(string1) == temp_string2:
     print "data found"

or convert it to a string after retrieving the value from dictionary

string1 = str(element.__dict__.get('layer'))

Strangely enough, its a very unconventional way of accessing a the get method of the dict, instead you could have simply done a member referencing with . notation

string1    = element.get('layer')