Python style questions

[Don O'Donnell]

Cary O'Brien wrote:
> 
> In article <98tclh$ap6$2 at lahti.tasking.nl>,
> Dick Streefland <dick_streefland at tasking.com> wrote:
> >cobrien at Radix.Net (Cary O'Brien) wrote:
> >| 4. I need to change things like "88aa99bb" (hex string) into integers.  Should I
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> >c. use string.atoi(s, 16), or for Python >= 2.0, the builtin int(s, 16).
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> >
> >>> import string
> >>> string.atoi('abcd',16)
> 43981
> >>>
> 
> Ok, that works.  Missing in my "Python essential reference" though.
> 
hmmm, that's funny it's in my PER, under "string" in the Library
section, page 116:

atoi(s, [, base])
    Converts string s to an integer base is an optional base.

/Don