[Tutor] Looking for Python equivalents of some C functions

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 23:19, Tony Cappellini wrote:
> Are there Python equivalents for the following C functions ?
>
> sprintf()
> fprintf()
>

import sys
sys.stderr.write("My name is %s" % name)
# equiv of fprintf(stderr, "My name is %s", name);

name =3D "%s, %s" % (last_name, first_name)
# equiv of sprintf(name, "%s, %s", last_name, first_name);

> I didn't see anything suitable in the strings module references.
>
> itoa()
> ltoa()
> ftoa()  // float or double to asciii
>

str(), int(), float() will do that conversions you want.