Conversions - Python

Data Type Conversions

Python has built in functions to convert between different data types. To convert something to an integer you would enter:

number = int( textEntered)

or if you wanted to get the input direct from the user you could do this instead:

name = int( input(“enter a number”) )

Other conversion functions are available:

In the previous section Variables you needed to convert the values entered by the user to an integer in this way. You may also need to convert in the opposite way:

text = str( number)

or if you wanted to convert and display the number you could do this instead:

print("the number entered was: " + str(number) )