int() should be extended?

[Padraig Brady]

Xiao-Qin Xia wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> int() can convert some string into integer, except a string from hex():
> """
> 
>>>>int("41")
>>>
> 41
> 
>>>>int("041")
>>>
> 41
> 
>>>>int("0x41")
>>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 0x41
> 
>>>>exec "c = 0x41"
>>>>c
>>>
> 65
> """
> since use exec is not so good a habit, is there any other way to convert 
> "0x41" to 65 (0x41)?, or int() should be extened to do this job?

In general the way to do it is exec or
eval like:

myint=int(eval(mystring))

I guess having int() supporting 8000 08000 0x8000 8e3 ....
would be silly. That logic is already loaded so you
might as well call it (using eval).

Pádraig.