string.py

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "A" == Alex  <alex at somewhere.round.here> writes:

    >> how does one do 'ff'.atoi(16) using 'ff'.int()?

    A> Aahz, my impression was that he was talking about functions
    A> available in the string module, not really methods of a string
    A> object.

Actually, he's talking about the builtin int(), float(), and long()
functions.  We decided that those subsumed all the functionality of
string.atoi(), etc. so it didn't add anything to make string methods
of atoi, etc.

-Barry