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POPython Force python to keep leading zeros of int variables
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copied!<p>Below is a section of code which is part of a functional decryption and encryption program.</p> <pre><code>while checkvar < maxvar: # is set to < as maxvar is 1 to high for the index of var #output.append("%02d" % number) i =ord(var[checkvar]) - 64 # Gets postional value of i i = ("%02d" % i) if (checkvar + 1) < maxvar: j =ord(var[(checkvar + 1)]) - 64 # Gets postional value of i j = ("%02d" % j) i = str(i) + str(j) #'Adds' the string i and j to create a new i li.append(int(i)) checkvar = checkvar + 2 print li </code></pre> <p>As you can see the two variables i and j are first treated as string to add a 0 in front of any single digit numbers (as string). These variables then are combined to make a four digit number (still as a string). Later in the program the number created are used in a pow function. AS ints remove any leading zeros.</p> <p>My question: Is it possible to force python to keep the leading zero for ints. I have and continuing to search online.</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>TO help people I have included the encrpytion part of the program. This is where the problem lies. The variables created in the above code are passed through a pow() function. As this can't handle strings i have to convert the variables to ints where the leading zero is lost.</p> <pre><code>#a = li[] b=int(17)#pulic = e c=int(2773)#=n lenli=int(len(li)) enchecker = int(0) #encrpted list enlist = [] while enchecker < lenli: en = pow(li[enchecker],b,c)#encrpyt the message can only handle int enlist.append(int(en)) enchecker = enchecker + 1 print enlist </code></pre>

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