If a line in a script has
n = "1,987,087,234,456"
It's simple to convert the string, "1,987,087,234,456" to an int, but
I can't figure out how to do it for
n = 1,987,087,234,456 # no quotes
(I want to be able to type in big ints using commas--much easier to
see that I've typed correctly)
Python sees 1,987,077,234,456 as a tuple:
>>>type(1,987,077,234,456)
<type 'tuple'>
But:
>>>type(1,987,087,234,456)
File "<input>", line 1
type(1,987,087,234,456)
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
(My wild guess is that 087 is octal.)
Anyway,
I need to convert things such as 1,987,077,234,456 to ints. This will do it:
(m can also be an int such as 1987077234456)
if type(m) == tuple:
mAsStr = ""
for part in m:
part = str(part)
mAsStr += part
m = int(mAsStr)
So this is fine as long as none of the parts of the tuple is of the
form 08X (where X is from 0-9). What to do?
Thanks,
Dick Moores
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