how to get the length of a number

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Em Dom, 2006-06-11 às 20:10 +0000, Stan Cook escreveu:
> Can anyone tell me how to get the length of a number.  I 
> know len(string) will get the length of a string, but it 
> doesn't like len(int).  I seem to remember something like %s 
> string.  I tried to set a variable = to %s int, but that 
> doesn't work.  Is there a function I've forgotten about to 
> convert an integer to a string?

To convert an integer i to a string:

    str(i)   or   "%s" % i


To see how many decimal digits it has:

    import math
    math.ceil(math.log(i, 10))

-- 
Felipe.