dcc.Input being a string instead of number

Dash Python
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Having a range slider of numeric min/max/value return a string is misleading . DONT DO THAT alis fix it:

try yourself with
https://dash.plotly.com/dash-core-components/input

the callbacks args:
(None, None, None, None, None, None, None, '19.533189869227', None)

should be int/float. your weird " Important Notice re Integer vs Float" para. underlines the issues. please clean it up

it gets worse if one sets the inital value=1, but later callbacks will be ‘2’, once it is incremented!

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@2l3fij
Default is type=‘text’ which returns a string. Try including type=‘number’

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if you were to look closely at the args order abolve the ‘19.533189869227’ comes from type='range', now what? since min/max/value are already numeric

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Right, type=“range” returns a string. It would be better to return numeric.
Now what? Using int() or float() should work.

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