Gary Herron schreef:
>  Mensanator wrote:
> > On Nov 7, 7:17 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu...@[...].com> wrote:
> >   
> >> It seems that int() does not convert '1e7'.
> >>     
> > Because 'e' isn't a valid character in base 10.
> >   
>  
>  But 1e7 is a valid float, so this works:
>  
>   >>> int(float('1e7'))
>  10000000
>  
>  That has a problem though, if you surpass the ability of a float:
>  
>   >>> int(float('1e20'))
>  100000000000000000000L
>   >>> int(float('1e30'))
>  1000000000000000019884624838656L

If that is a concern, decimal can help:

> >> import decimal
> >> int(decimal.Decimal('1e30'))
1000000000000000000000000000000L

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