How to convert list of intable strings to int

Question

In Python, I want to convert a list of strings:

l = [\'sam\',\'1\',\'dad\',\'21\']

and convert the integers to integer types like this:

Answer 1

Use isdigit() to check each character in the string to see if it is a digit.

Example:

mylist = ['foo', '3', 'bar', '9']
t = [ int(item) if item.isdigit() else item for item in mylist ] 
print(t)