[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik Lundh's solution works if the hex string starts with "0x"
that's what "interpret [it] as a Python literal" meant. > (which it will when the string is created with the hex function). > > >>> int(hex(m),0) > 66 > > But it won't work without the "0x". > > >>> int('0x1A',0) > 26 > >>> int('0x1A',16) > 26 > >>> int('1A',16) > 26 > >>> int('1A',0) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#18>", line 1, in -toplevel- > int('1A',0) > ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 1A as the error message says, 1A isn't a valid literal. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list