Quoth "William Dandreta" <wjdandreta at worldnet.att.net>: | I have an ascii string like 0C44DH. Ids there a Python function to convert | it to decimal? Yes, everything except that trailing H anyway. I'd use string.atoi('c44d', 16), and I guess in the end that is about the same thing as int('c44d', 16) Donn Cave, donn at oz.net