String to Hex

[Oliver Fromme]

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
 > How do you safely turn an arbitrarily long signed hex string into a
 > long integer ?
 > e.g. -0x55aff8080000

I don't really see what the problem is.

$ python -c 'print int("-0x55aff8080000", 16)'
-94214268911616

Works fine on 2.3.4, no warning.  The "0x" is optional,
so if your strings don't contain it from the beginning,
you don't have to insert it.

Best regards
   Oliver

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