miscellaneous topics ii in this we will look at variety of useful things to know strintfloatand list the strintfloatand list functions are used to convert one data type into another str quite often we will want to convert number to string to take advantage of string methods to break the number apart the built-in function str is used to convert things into strings here are some examplesstatement result str( ' str( ' str([ , , ]'[ , , ]int and float the int function converts something into an integer the float function converts something into floating point number here are some examples statement result int(' ' float(' ' int( to convert float to an integerthe int function drops everything after the decimal point