Problem

[William Tanksley]

On Wed, 19 May 1999 20:49:23 +0200, Frank de Bot wrote:
>The strings are extracted from a file. (forgot to tell). Do you maybe know a way
>to make the string valid to calculate with?

Sure.  If you know they're integers, you can use int(), like this:

str = "1023"
x = int(str)

str = "9123478237486432678342688476234847262348764238L"
y = long(str)

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