Converting from strings to integers

[Bengt Richter]

On 1 Aug 2001 17:49:31 -0700, ssmith619 at hotmail.com (Stephen Smith) wrote:

>Hi, I'm new to Python and am just trying out an example of file I/O. 
>I am trying to read a file (successfully), and then multiply a value
>by another static variable.  The value from the file was outputting in
>the 'string' format, and I need to convert it into an integer.  I
>tried using the int(x) command, but it doesn't seem to care, it is
>still in the string format.  The number is a plain integer (87, for
>example).  How on earth do you convert the value to an integer? 
>Thanks for your help!

If you post a snippet of the code causing the problem, you will
get more than meta-helpful responses ;-)