I ran into a problem when trying to convert a 5,000 digit long integer into a string.

I realised that I did not need an integer in that case, but I would still like to know if there is a way to manipulate integers without converting it to a string.

As an example, if I wanted the first 10 digits of a large integer using the slice operator:

x = 78**100000000

z = str(x)[:10]
print(z)

This would give me an error for trying to convert an integer of length exceeding 4,300 to a string.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!