From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T22:47:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparison error

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote in post #955622:
>> you can also do
>>
>> age = Integer(ageText)
>>
>> the 2nd form will throw an ArgumentError exception if ageText is not a
>> number
>
> Beware that it also has some other behaviour you might not expect.
>
>>> Integer("20")
> => 20
>>> Integer("00020")
> => 16
>>> Integer("0x00020")
> => 32
>
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>
>

nice thanks for pointing that out =)

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