>>>>> "AM" == Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> writes: AM> I'm assuming, of course, that the revised 1.5.2 documents are AM> correct and that int() still does not take a radix. The docs are out of date: Python 1.5.2+ (#10, Feb 10 2000, 15:28:44) [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos5 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> int('ff', 16) 255 -Barry