[Tutor] changing char list to int list isn't working

[Alan Gauld]

On 04/05/13 05:13, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I'm turning an integer into a string so I can make a list of separate
> chars, then turn those chars back into individual ints,

You don't actually need to convert to chars, you could
use divmod to do it directly on the numbers:

 >>> digits = []
 >>> root = 455
 >>> while root > 0:
...     root, n = divmod(root,10)
...     digits.insert(0,n)
...
 >>> digits
[4, 5, 5]

But I suspect the str() method is slightly faster...

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