How convert string '1e7' to an integer?

[Ben Finney]

Mick Krippendorf <mad.mick at gmx.de> writes:

> Peng Yu wrote:
> > It seems that int() does not convert '1e7'.
> It seems it does, though:
>
> >>> int('1e7', base=16)
> 487

Well played, sir.

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