On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:40:49 -0800, Phlip wrote:
> On Jan 5, 1:10 pm, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
>
>> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html
>>
>> Don't forget that the Python documentation is rich and structured. And
>> good luck.
>
> Does it say how to convert a string containing either an integer
> representation, or something alphabetic, into an integer, or a zero, in
> like 1 method call? (No except: ?)
If you mean something like this:
>>> int('153')
153
then yes it does. But if you mean something like this:
>>> some_mysterious_function('one hundred and fifty-three')
153
then no, it doesn't.
> Nothing personal, but I'm finding the super-hard stuff very facile &
> tractable, and the easy stuff absurdly hard around here...
Then perhaps you should work through the tutorial to learn the basics.
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