Just out of curiosty: What did you think what atoi does? I don't understand how you came to expect that atoi('4',3) should result in 11.
Bye, Dennis
Mea culpa. For some strange reason, I had it in my mind that atoi would take a base ten number as a string and convert it to the correct representation in the base of the second argument. In other words, atoi('4',3) should take 4 in base 10 and convert it to base 3, resulting in 11. Exactly backwords, as atoi('11',3) = 4, that is, 11 base 3 = 4 base 10.
Thanks to all for setting me straight.
Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
