title: Python Type Conversion
body: <p>Whats the best way to convert int's, long's, double's to strings and vice versa in python.</p>
  
  <p>I am looping through a list and passing longs to a dict that should be turned into a unicode string.</p>
  
  <p>I do   </p>
  
  <pre><code>for n in l:  
      {'my_key':n[0],'my_other_key':n[1]}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why are some of the most obvious things so complicated?</p>