[Tutor] strings and int()

[jadrifter]

Try eval("2*3")

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:14 +1000, Mr Gerard Kelly wrote:
> If you have a string "6", and you do int("6"), you get the number 6.
> 
> But if you have a string "2*3" and you do int("2*3") you get a name error.
> 
> How do you take an expression in a string, and evaluate the expression
> to get a number?
> 
> I want to be able to turn the string "2*3" into the number 6.
> 
> thanks
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