Skonieczny, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> YOU SHOULD REMOVE or CORRECT YOUR POST here:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/427841.html
>
> It is not true - eg. try :
> a='P' # P is ASCII , isn't it ?
> b=int(a)
> and what you will get ? An error !!!
'P' is obviously not an ASCII representation of a number.
What did you expect? The closest number by visual appearance?
cu
Philipp
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