string.atoi('-')

[Jens Linge]

I had the following problem:

With python 1.51 running on a SGI:
>>> string.atoi('-')
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for atoi(): -
>>> 

But with python 1.52 running on a SGI:
>>> string.atoi('-')
0
>>> 

Does it depend on the compilation?
Does anyone have the same problem?

WHAT IS THE RULE?



Thank you in advance.

Jens