Cheese Shop Registration error

[John Machin]

Richard Jones wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > | >>> int("6A61E3AD")
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 6A61E3AD
> > | >>> int("6A61E3AD", 16)
> > 1784800173
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> Ah, thankyou! I, on the other hand, looked at that code several times and
> saw nothing ;)
>
> I've fixed the code and it'll be fixed on the server soon (once apache
> restarts itself).
>

Hi Richard, might be a good idea to spell out the actual criteria
rather than rely on side effects of int -- e.g. if the input is not
subject to .strip() somewhere between the keyboard and your code, you
could get false positives:

| >>> int("1234567 ",16)
| 19088743
| >>> int(" 1234567",16)
| 19088743

re.match("[A-Fa-f0-9]{8,8}", data.strip()) makes it plain what is
intended ...

Cheers,
John


Cheers,
John