Newbie - Stuck

[Gary Herron]

r3bol at yahoo.com wrote:
> The perl version of this code works but not the python version. What am
> I doing wrong?
>
> message = "abc"
> password = "z12"
>
> scrambled = message ^ password
>   
The error message (which you should have supplied) tells you why it
fails. That operator does not operate on strings. In fact, it operates
on integers and longs.
> I also wondered why this errored as well...
>
> int(messege)
>
> Is it not meant to convert a string to a number?
>   
It does convert a string to a number, but just what number do you think
"abc" should be converted to ? 42 perhaps?

int("123') will yield 123,
and if you decide to treat "abc" as a hexadecimal number, then
int("abc", 16)" yields 2748.

If (as I believe) you wish to take the bit patterns used internally to
represent a string and reinterpret those bits as an integer, then ...
perhaps you'd like to check out the struct module.

Gary Herron