[Tutor] Strange problem

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:54:11PM -0700, Mike Yuen wrote:
> I'll attach some code to make my question clearer.
> 
> RowCol = sys.stdin.readline() # Gets Row / Col
> Row = RowCol[0]
> 
> counter = 0
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
>         line = string.strip(line)# Have clean line now
>         if (counter == 0):
>                 key = line
>                 counter = counter + 1
>         elif (counter < 4):  ********* PROBLEM HERE! ***********
>                 data = line
>                 counter = counter + 1
>         else:
>                 dict[key] = data
>                 counter = 0
> 
> The problem occurs on the line i've indicated above.  If I hardcode it by
> putting a 4 it works great and creates the dictionary items I want.
> However, when I put Row (which is: Row = RowCol[0]).  The comparison
> operation doesn't work properly.
> 
> Can someone helpe me out.  I'm pretty stumped as to why.  
> 
> * I've put Row and RowCol[0] in place of the 4 above but it still doesn't
> work.
> 
> Thanks,
> M

Umm.. RowCol[0] is a string, isn't it? You can convert it to an integer
like this:

val = int(RowCol[0]
> 
> 
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