# Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889 "2022-09-08T22:40:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889/83 "2022-09-13T10:46:59Z")

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Just for awareness, this has also broken a number of problem set for students. For example, “What is the leading / trailing / 500th digit of 4^(5^6)? How many times does each digit appear?”. Students used to be able to solve by doing something like:

```auto
n = 4 **(5** 6)
s = str(n)
print(s[0], s[-1], s[-500]))

from collections import Counter
print(Counter(s))

```

Of course, the second line now raises a ValueError since our cloud learning environments have all updated to the latest patch release.

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