srtring to int question

[Jim Richardson]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:46:03 -0400, 
 Darrell Gallion, in the persona of <darrell at dorb.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>Dooo@!
>Those examples make more sense like this.
>The re prevents bad things from being input into eval.
>
>def convert(s):
>    try:
>        x = int(s)
>    except:
>        print "Not a number"
>        return None
>    return x
>
>def convert(s):
>    try:
>        assert(re.match("\s*\d+",s))
>        x=eval(s,{},{})
>    except:
>        print "Not a number"
>        return None
>    return x
>

Thanks to all who posted, try seems to be what I needed, (eval looks more 
complicated than I need at the moment, especially wrt the security issues.
But it is something I will read the docs for :)

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