How can I change the data type to string in Python

Question

I am writing a program to check the occurence of an alphabet. Here i got stuck on the datatype. Can someone help me with changing of data type to string?

Answer 1

You can use

str(variablename)

This is called conversion in Python. You can use this to convert your variable to type string. Then again it won't work properly in versions <3.0 as if your objects ascii code is more than the ascii of the character then you will get an error, In that case you should use

unicode(variablename)

In version >=3.0 it is taken automatically