Not getting exact result in python with the values leading zero. Please tell me what is going on there

Question

zipcode = 02132

print zipcode

result = 1114

Answer 1

Quite apart from the octal caper:

Zip codes, social security "numbers", credit card "numbers", phone "numbers", etc are NOT numbers in the sense that you can do meaningful arithmetic on them, so don't keep them as integers, keep them as strings.