A little confuse

[Fredrik Lundh]

infotechsys at pivot.net wrote:

> When I run this code in the pdb it works.
>  accountNbr = 1
>  for testLine in ftest.readlines():
>         acct = testLine[1:2]             #there account number
>         if accountNbr == int(acct):
>             accountNbr = accountNbr + 1
> 
> When I run without the debugger I get this error.
> 
>  File "./casco.py", line 62, in process
>     if accountNbr == int(acct):
> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): "
> 
> Can someone explain?

adding a

          print repr(acct), repr(testLine)

debug statement after the "acct = testLine" line might give you the 
clues you need to solve this.

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