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

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")