int() should be extended?

[Erik Max Francis]

Xiao-Qin Xia wrote:

> 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?

It already has, but I'm surprised nobody (except Frederik who posted the
doc string) has mentioned that a radix of 0 makes int autodetect the
radix, and so behaves just like you want to:

>>> int('23', 0)
23
>>> int('023', 0) # octal
19
>>> int('0x23', 0) # hex
35

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