How to convert Nonetype to int or string?

Question

I\'ve got an Nonetype value x, it\'s generally a number, but could be None. I want to divide it by a number, but Python raises:

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Answer 1

I've successfully used int(x or 0) for this type of error, so long as None should equate to 0 in the logic. Note that this will also resolve to 0 in other cases where testing x returns False. e.g. empty list, set, dictionary or zero length string. Sorry, Kindall already gave this answer.