On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to convert the string "FFFFFFFF" to a long. To convert this
> string I tried the following:
> >>> 0xffffffff
> -1
> >>> 0xffffffffL
> 4294967295L
>
> OK, this is what I want, so I tried
>
> s = long("0xffffffffL")
> ValueError: invalid literal for long(): 0xffffffffL
>
> s = long("0xffffffff")
> ValueError: invalid literal for long(): 0xffffffffL
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Stefan
Leave out the "0x" prefix and tell long() that you're using base 16:
>>> long("ffffffff", 16)
4294967295L
HTH,
Carsten.
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