In Python, a string can be converted into an integer using the following methods :
Method 1: Using built-in int() function:
If your string contains a decimal integer and you wish to convert it into an int, in that case, pass your string to int() function and it will convert your string into an equivalent decimal integer.
Syntax : int(string, base)
Parameter : This function take following parameters :
- string : consists of 1’s, 0’s or hexadecimal ,octal digits etc.
- base : (integer value) base of the number.
Returns : Returns an integer value, which is equivalent
of string in the given base.
Code :
Python3
# Initialising a string # with decimal valuestring = "100" # Show the Data typeprint(type(string)) # Converting string into intstring_to_int = int(string) # Show the Data typeprint(type(string_to_int)) |
Output:
<class 'str'> <class 'int'>
By default, int() expect that the string argument represents a decimal integer. Assuming, in any case, you pass a hexadecimal string to int(), then it will show ValueError. In such cases, you can specify the base of the number in the string.
Code:
Python3
# Initialising a string# with hexadecimal valuestring = "0x12F" # Show the Data typeprint(type(string)) # Converting hexadecimal # string into intstring_to_int = int(string, base=16)# Show the Data typeprint(type(string_to_int)) |
Output:
<class 'str'> <class 'int'>
Method 2: Using user-defined function:
We can also convert a string into an int by creating our own user-defined function.
Approach:
- we’ll check, if the number has any “-” sign or not, for if it is a negative number it will contain “-” sign. If it contains “-” sign, then we will start our conversion from the second position which contains numbers.
- Any number, suppose 321, can be written in the structure : 10**2 * 3 + 10**1*2 + 10**0*1
- Similarly, we split each of the input number using ord(argument), ord(‘0’) will return 48, ord(‘1’) returns 49 and so forth.
- The logic here is that ord(‘1’) – ord(‘0) = 1, ord(‘2’) – ord(‘0’) = 2 and so on which gives us the significant number to be fetched from the given input number.
- Finally, the result we get from the function is an Integral number which we changed over from the given string.
Code:
Python3
# User-defined function to # convert a string into integerdef string_to_int(input_string): output_int = 0 # Check if the number contains # any minus sign or not, # i.e. is it a negative number or not. # If it contains in the first # position in a minus sign, # we start our conversion # from the second position which # contains numbers. if input_string[0] == '-' : starting_idx = 1 check_negative = True else: starting_idx = 0 check_negative = False for i in range(starting_idx, len(input_string)): # calculate the place value for # the respective digit place_value = 10**(len(input_string) - (i+1)) # calculate digit value # ord() function gives Ascii value digit_value = ord(input_string[i]) - ord('0') # calculating the final integer value output_int += place_value * digit_value # if check_negative is true # then final integer value # is multiplied by -1 if check_negative : return -1 * output_int else: return output_int # Driver codeif __name__ == "__main__" : string = "554" # function call x = string_to_int(string) # Show the Data type print(type(x)) string = "123" # Show the Data type print(type(string_to_int(string))) string = "-123" # Show the Data type print(type(string_to_int(string))) |
Output:
<class 'int'> <class 'int'> <class 'int'>
