>>> age1 = input("How old are you? ") # (try giving it 2 numbers! disaster...)
22
>>> age2 = input("How old are you? ")
30
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> nums = raw_input("Give me two numbers: ")
23 30
>>> nums
'23 30'
>>> i = nums.find(' ')
>>> num1 = nums[:i]
>>> num2 = nums[i+1:]
>>> num1
'23'
>>> type(num1)
<type 'str'>