On May 24, 1:33 am, Amit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code is attached below. Basically I am taking a substring of
> variable m, and using "buffer" instead of slicing.
>
> However, the application of int on that buffer start correctly from
> the offset, but it scans all the way to the end, instead of stopping
> at the length of the buffer.
>
> It works however, if I apply str function to output of buffer
> function.
>
> -A
>
> (Pdb) m = "AA1234AA"
> (Pdb) x = buffer(m, 2, 4)
> (Pdb) x
> <read-only buffer for 0x2a9d0c18a0, size 4, offset 2 at 0x2a9d0cb7f0>
> (Pdb) int(x)
> *** ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1234AA'
> (Pdb) m = "AA1234AA"
> (Pdb) m = "AA1234"
> (Pdb) x = buffer(m, 2, 4)
> (Pdb) int(x)
> 1234
> (Pdb)
Interestingly, if I try:
int(x, 10)
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#13>", line 1, in <module>
int(x, 10)
TypeError: int() can't convert non-string with explicit base
Perhaps int(x) should also be complaining that x isn't a string.
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