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

You can do it this way

for n in l:
    {'my_key':unicode(n[0]),'my_other_key':unicode(n[1])}

Perhaps this is clearer if there are only 2 or 3 keys/values

for my_value, my_other_value in l:
    {'my_key':unicode(my_value),'my_other_key':unicode(my_other_value)}

I think this would be better if there are more than 3 keys/values

for n in l:
    dict(zip(('my_key','myother_key'),map(unicode,n)))