[Tutor] built-in hex->int question

[Lloyd Hugh Allen]

You can do long(float('0xaf')), if you want to...don't know if that
helps.

Huuuuuu wrote:
> 
> Hi Tutor,
> 
> Why understands the float() function a string argument but not
> integer-cast-functions?
> 
> >>> int('0xaf')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 0xaf
> >>> long('0xaf')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for long(): 0xaf
> >>> float('0xaf')
> 175.0
> 
> Thanks,
> willi
> 
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