[Tutor] Question: Converting ints to strings

[Jason Stokes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Fiel Cabral <fcabral@i-next.net>
To: tutor@python.org <tutor@python.org>
Date: Sunday, April 23, 2000 11:48 AM
Subject: [Tutor] Question: Converting ints to strings


>Please tell me how to convert an int to a string.
>I'm trying to do the following:
>
>    block_number = 1
>    file_name = 'temp.file'
>    output = open(file_name + '.$' + block_number + '$', 'wb')
>
>This didn't work. I was hoping that it would create
>a file called 'temp.file.$1$'.


For any object x, str(x) will return a string which is a printable
representation of that object.

so you can use:

output = open(file_name + '.$' + str(block_number) + '$', 'wb')

Cheers,
Jason Stokes: jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au