Converting itegers to strings

[Skip Montanaro]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Frost <chris at frostnet.advicom.net> writes:

    Chris> How can you convert numbers (an interger in this case) to
    Chris> strings? (i.e. I have some_number = 3, and would like to use it
    Chris> as a string)

There are a couple ways.  Try the % operator, backquotes or the str builtin
function.

    import math
    "%d" % 3
    type("%d" % 3)
    `math.pi`
    type(`math.pi`)
    ("%6.1f" % math.pi)
    type("%6.1f" % math.pi)
    str(math.pi)
    type(str(math.pi))

All should print
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