[Tutor] How convert an int to a string

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

--- Original Message -----

> From: Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:01 PM
> Subject: [Tutor] How convert an int to a string
> 
> I need to convert a series of digits like 060713 to a string so I can 
> make it look like a date 06-07-13.
> 
>>>>  a = 060713
>>>>  a[:2]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'int' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
>>>>  b = str(a)
>>>>  b[:2]
> '25'
>>>>  b
> '25035'
>>>> 
> 
> I was confused at first but then realized that the  0  makes it octal. I 
> thought str() would do it but it didn't. Reading about str() it talks of 
> string representation.  So how can I convert it to a true string I can 
> slice and build my date look a like?

weird indeed. Can wait to hear more about it. But oct() does the trick.

>>> a = 060713
>>> a
25035
>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%d-%m-%y", time.strptime(oct(a), "%d%m%y"))
'06-07-13'
>>> b = str(oct(a))
>>> "%02s-%02s-%02s" % (b[:2], b[2:4], b[4:])
'06-07-13'