How to Fix AttributeError: Int Object Has No Attribute

The int data type is one of the most essential and primitive data types, which is utilized to store and represent integers in not just Python, but several other programming languages. An int data type can store any positive or negative whole numbers as long as there is no decimal point.

This tutorial focuses on and provides a solution to counter a specific error that may occur while we use the int data type in Python.

Fix AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute in Python

The AttributeError is one of the common errors that may occur in Python code. This tutorial deals with one such AttributeError, which is the 'int' object has no attribute 'A'.

Here, A can be any function utilized on the int object.

Before proceeding with the example code and learning how to get rid of this error, let us understand the reason behind the occurrence of this error.

The AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute comes up when an attribute that is not supposed to be accessed with an integer is tried to be accessed in the code.

Let us consider an example code in which we take an attribute to be the startswith() function in this case and try to use it along with a variable with an int data type.

x = 16
print(type(x))
y = x.startswith("1")
print(y)

The above code provides the following output.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/sessions/9a0e45726a00d027/main.py", line 3, in <module>
    y = x.startswith('1')
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'startswith'

We know that the startswith() function is an attribute for a string data type rather than an int data type, it is easy to understand the occurrence of this error and how it can be solved in our case.

The above error can be removed if the int data type variable is converted to the str data type, which then deals with the given startswith() attribute.

The following code converts the variable of the int data type to the str data type and then deals with the given startswith() attribute.

x = 16
print(type(x))
y = str(x).startswith("1")
print(y)

The above code provides the following output.

<class 'int'>
True