[Zope] wrong value for integer variable?

[Tony McDonald]

At 4:27 pm -0400 28/7/99, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
>> From: Donald Holten [mailto:donner@biophysics.lanl.gov]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 4:14 PM
>> To: michel@digicool.com
>> Cc: zope@zope.org
>> Subject: RE: [Zope] wrong value for integer variable?
>>
>>
>>	Something very interesting...  I changed the code as
>> you said, and, as I
>> sort of figured, it didn't work (only because I saw that
>> python has no way to
>> convert strings to ints). 
>
>Sure it does, int().  In DTML, you can access this via the _ namespace,
>ie.
>
><dtml-if "_.int('1') == 1">
>  Hey, it works!
></dtml-if>
>
>-Michel

There's also atoi, which uses an arbitrary base...I tried to use it 
so; and got an attribute error
<dtml-var "_.atoi('178')">
and
<dtml-var "_.atoi('178', 16)">
tone

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