[C++-sig] Re: invalid literal for int()

[David Abrahams]

"Paul Grenyer" <paul at paulgrenyer.co.uk> writes:

> Hi
>
> The plot has just thickened. The following doesn't produce any errors:
>
> import string
>
> houseno = ADD1[0:2]
>
> if TITLE == "MR":
>     if int(houseno) > 0 and int(houseno) < 16:
>                 outputFile = "Mr.out"
> else:
>     outputFile = "rest.out"
>
> However, if I remove the first if statement:
>
> import string
>
> houseno = ADD1[0:2]
>
> if int(houseno) > 0 and int(houseno) < 16:
>     outputFile = "Mr.out"
> else:
>     outputFile = "rest.out"
>
> I am back to the "invalid literal for int()" error.
>
> I must be doing something very wrong somewhere.

These are pure Python errors, having nothing to do with C++:

  >>> int('foo')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  ValueError: invalid literal for int(): foo


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