Help: Can you explain this error? (contains code snip)

[H. P. Friedrichs]

Hello:

This is week 2 for me in python...What fun!

I have stumbled across an interesting problem. When the code below is
run under Win95 (python 1.5.2),it works without problems. If the same
code is run under Linux (python 1.4) I get the error:

Traceback (innermost last):
    File "socksrv3.py", line 100, in ?
        han=int(handle)    #extract integer representation of handle
TypeError: int() argument can't be converted to int

The code section below is part of a larger program that receives ascii
"link messages" through a TCPIP socket. The format for the message is as
follows: an ascii "handle" followed by a tilde, followed by an ascii
"verb", followed by a tilde, and concludes with an ascii "value" An
example looks like this: "123~opensym~0"

Anyhow, the code below uses splitfields to break the message into it's
constituent parts. Later, at the line signified by the marker "====>"
the
program blows up when I attempt to convert the string "handle" into it's

integer equivalent.

What gives? Is the 1.4 version of python buggy, or am I overlooking
something? Thanks for your help in advance.

Pete




        #*** receive link  msg ****
        cmd=conn.recv(1024)             #try to get a message
        if not cmd:
            print"closing connection..."
            conn.close()                #good housekeeping...close
cnnctn
            break


        #*** extract components of link message ***********
        fieldlist=splitfields(cmd,"~")      #break message to
constituents
        handle=fieldlist[0]                 #extract handle
        verb=fieldlist[1]                   #extract verb
        value=fieldlist[2]                  #extract value



        #****** if command requested write to existing symbol, do this:
        if verb == "writesym":
====>       han=int(handle)        #extract integer representation of
handle
            masterdict[han]=float(value)

            response=handle+"~"+verb+"~"+value #build response string
            print "tx'd response:",response
            print "dict status:  ",masterdict
            conn.send(response)         #send response
            continue


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