[Solved] Determining the First Digit

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raw_input returns a string.

Strings are never equal to numbers.

>>> '0' == 0
False

Compare the string with a string. For example, to check whether the string starts with specific character (sub-string), using str.startswith:

if number.startswith('0'):
    ...

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solved Determining the First Digit