A summary of some type conversion functions in Python _python

Function description
int (x [, Base]) converts x to an integer
Long (x [, Base]) converts x to a long integer
Float (x) converts x to a floating-point number
Complex (real [, Imag]) creates a complex number
STR (x) converts an object x to a string
REPR (x) converts an object x to an expression string
Eval (str) is used to compute a valid Python expression in a string and returns an object
Tuple (s) converts the sequence s to a tuple
List (s) converts sequence s to a list
Chr (x) converts an integer to a character
UNICHR (x) converts an integer to a Unicode character
Ord (x) converts a character to its integer value
Hex (x) converts an integer to a hexadecimal string
Oct (x) converts an integer to a octal string