newbie question: converting integer to string

[Erik Max Francis]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 adina_levin at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > how can I generate a string representation of num?
> 
> `num`

str(num) would probably be more appropriate than repr(num) if, say, num
were a long.

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