Paul Rubin wrote: > My favorite way to convert strings to numbers is with binascii: > > from binascii import hexlify > def s2num(text): > return int(hexlify(text), 16)
Neat. I use the empty string as a binary representation of zero, which you can accommodate with: def s2num(text): return int(hexlify(text) or '0', 16) -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list