--- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net>
> To: tutor@python.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:01 PM
> Subject: [Tutor] How convert an int to a string
>
> I need to convert a series of digits like 060713 to a string so I can
> make it look like a date 06-07-13.
>
>>>> a = 060713
>>>> a[:2]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'int' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
>>>> b = str(a)
>>>> b[:2]
> '25'
>>>> b
> '25035'
>>>>
>
> I was confused at first but then realized that the 0 makes it octal. I
> thought str() would do it but it didn't. Reading about str() it talks of
> string representation. So how can I convert it to a true string I can
> slice and build my date look a like?
weird indeed. Can wait to hear more about it. But oct() does the trick.
>>> a = 060713
>>> a
25035
>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%d-%m-%y", time.strptime(oct(a), "%d%m%y"))
'06-07-13'
>>> b = str(oct(a))
>>> "%02s-%02s-%02s" % (b[:2], b[2:4], b[4:])
'06-07-13'
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