input select only seems to return a string

[nahomjd]

when using shiny.express even if the choices are non-strings for example ui.input_select('tournament', 'Filter by Making NCAA Tournament', choices=[True, False])
When calling input.tournament() the value is sent as a string instead of bool, same is true for integers as well. The workaround I found was to do ui.input_select('tournament', 'Filter by Making NCAA Tournament', choices=['True', 'False']) and input_df = data[data['NCAA Tournament'].astype(str) == input.tournament()].