Re: How to covert ASCII to integer in Python?



Skonieczny, Chris <Skonieczny.C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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