Newbie: How to convert a tuple of strings into a tuple of ints

[Ben Finney]

otaksoftspamtrap at gmail.com writes:

> How do I get from here
>
> t = ('1024', '1280')
>
> to 
>
> t = (1024, 1280)

Both of those are assignment statements, so I'm not sure what you mean
by “get from … to”. To translate one assignment statement to a different
assignment statement, re-write the statement.


But I think you want to produce a new sequence from an existing sequence.

The ‘map’ built-in function is useful for that::

    sequence_of_numbers_as_text = ['1024', '1280']
    sequence_of_integers = map(int, sequence_of_numbers_as_text)

That sequence can then be iterated.

Another (more broadly useful) way is to use a generator expression::

    sequence_of_integers = (int(item) for item in sequence_of_numbers_as_text)


If you really want a tuple, just pass that sequence to the ‘tuple’
callable::

    tuple_of_integers = tuple(
            int(item) for item in sequence_of_numbers_as_text)

or::

    tuple_of_integers = tuple(map(int, sequence_of_numbers_as_text))

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Ben Finney