converting to int

[BashBedlam]

just a quick look at it doesn't show me how it would get the value 345 from the string "345foo99boo123" or the value 65533 from the string "0xfffdummyfff".

Sorry. I guess I misunderstood.

[Skaperen]

so, in the end, what i do is start with the full string and pass it to int() in arg 1 while passing 0 in arg 2. this is done under try:. if there is an exception (expecting ValueError) then shorten the string by one character removed from the end until either the string is exhausted, or a success is reached. if success, return that value. if not, raise ValueError.