Newbie asks(2): How to do this line of C in Py?

[Lee Morgan]

"Steve S.L. Wong" <sailwong at alumni.cuhk.edu.hk> writes:

> if (sscanf(command, "%d", &num) != 1 )  {
> }

One method could be

try:
 num = int( command )
except:
 pass # or perhaps num = 0
else:
 # contents of if statement 

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-- 
Lee Morgan