On May 30, 10:03�am, Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It is in base 36. >>> a='P' >>> b=int(a,36) >>> b 25 > What did you expect? The closest number by visual appearance? > > cu > � � � � Philipp > > -- > Dr. Philipp Pagel > Lehrstuhl f. Genomorientierte Bioinformatik > Technische Universit�t M�nchenhttp://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
