Perl is worse!

[Steffen Ries]

grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb) writes:

> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:29:52 -0400, Karl Ulbrich <kulbrich at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >If they already contained numbers (well, strings of digits), and you were
> >certain, then simply:
> 
> >	a = int(b)
> 
>     As stated, that would work except Python returns a None on a no-match and
> None can't be converted.

use:
     a = int(b or 0)
then.

/steffen
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