Error with int()

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:50:34PM +0200, Arturo PИrez Mulas wrote:
> I am running python 2.1.1 under Windows XP BETA, and get the following
> error:
> 
> >>> int('a')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): a
> 
> Help anyone? Thank you

   'a' is stringand caanot be converted to an int. What do you want to
achive? Get ASCII value? ord('a').

Oleg.
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