How to covert ASCII to integer in Python?

Fri May 30 11:03:40 EDT 2008

Skonieczny, Chris <Skonieczny.C at emssatcom.com> wrote:

> YOU SHOULD REMOVE or CORRECT YOUR POST here: 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/427841.html  
>  
> It is not true - eg. try : 
> a='P'            # P is ASCII , isn't it ? 
> b=int(a)
> and what you will get ? An error !!!

'P' is obviously not an ASCII representation of a number.
What did you expect? The closest number by visual appearance?

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	Philipp

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Technische Universität München
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