Python style questions

[Cary O'Brien]

In article <98tclh$ap6$2 at lahti.tasking.nl>,
Dick Streefland <dick_streefland at tasking.com> wrote:
>cobrien at Radix.Net (Cary O'Brien) wrote:
>| 4. I need to change things like "88aa99bb" (hex string) into integers.  Should I
>| 
>|    a. use expr("0x"+s) 
>|    b. not use such things
>|    c. ???
>
>c. use string.atoi(s, 16), or for Python >= 2.0, the builtin int(s, 16).
>

Hmm...

>>> int('abcd',16)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: int requires exactly 1 argument; 2 given
>>> 

Is this a 2.0 feature?

>>> import string
>>> string.atoi('abcd',16)
43981
>>> 

Ok, that works.  Missing in my "Python essential reference" though.

Thanks...

-- cary