This could be useful if we were getting a "string" and converting to Int. But I don't know a data type that can't be converted to string format)

You described what the try except block does which is correct. However, it does not answer @shbhmnk's question of the case when a number cannot be turned into a string.

definitely a different solution

This is beuty code, but not clever. It iterates 4 times each String instead of 1.

the tests it gave you must be either a string or a num, I think you may be too careful

you just did bro!

I realy love such solutions, thank you!

Neat. I never knew that Python allows one line for conditional: resulting statement

How long it took you to learn these codes ?

Cool!

but you gotta admit, it's really cool

Codewars really needs experts to rank solutions.

how does it fell like being an alien?

Why is the try statement neccessary here? Do you have any particular case in mind?