Python Type Conversion

Question

Whats the best way to convert int's, long's, double's to strings and vice versa in python.

I am looping through a list and passing longs to a dict that should be turned into a unicode string.

I do

for n in l:  
    {'my_key':n[0],'my_other_key':n[1]}

Why are some of the most obvious things so complicated?

Answer 1

To convert from a numeric type to a string:

str(100)

To convert from a string to an int:

int("100")

To convert from a string to a float:

float("100")