Converting integer to string in Python

To manage non-integer inputs:

number = raw_input()
try:
    value = int(number)
except ValueError:
    value = 0

There is no typecast and no type coercion in Python. You have to convert your variable in an explicit way.

To convert an object into a string you use the str() function. It works with any object that has a method called __str__() defined. In fact

str(a)

is equivalent to

a.__str__()

The same if you want to convert something to int, float, etc.

>>> str(42)
'42'

>>> int('42')
42

Links to the documentation:

str(x) converts any object x to a string by calling x.__str__().

Try this:

str(i)

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