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Can anyone tell me what's d use of this int function?

One can simply do 2+3 why wud someone try to do int('2'+'3')?

6th Dec 2015, 3:06 AM
Bilawal Sharma
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7 Answers
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Because when you are receiving input you may have the variables be strings and then have to do operations on them
14th Dec 2015, 2:32 AM
Alex Lange
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user inputs are by nature strings, so sometimes converting is necessary in order to execute arithmetic operations
16th Feb 2016, 12:24 PM
Dave Wright
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some times you as output not an integer, and you must convert what you have
24th Dec 2015, 6:13 PM
dmitriy shvedchenko
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a="5" b="6" print (a+b) print (int (a)+int (b)) o/p - 56 11 if u r using any no. as string in any variable then to calculate it as string u can simply write it in print () but to manipulate it as integer int () is used .
23rd Oct 2016, 6:19 AM
Shivani Gupta
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Without using the 'Int' you cannot operate mathamatical operations
7th Jul 2016, 11:19 AM
Avaneesh Yadav
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To convert concated string '23' to integer 23 so we can perform mathatical operations on it.
7th Aug 2016, 11:57 AM
Pradeep Bilaiya
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bcoz u may require strings and numerals at the same time consequitively one after another.
31st Oct 2016, 6:55 PM
Devaashish Sharma