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

leading zero means octal as other have said. one way to keep your zero is to strip the leading zeros and just use a zero padded string when you display it,

>>> myInt = 2132
>>> print myInt
2132
>>> myString = "%05d" % myInt
>>> print myString
02132
>>> print int(myString)
2132

you probably get the idea.