[SOLVED] [Python] Too difficult to explain in title

[crazyfuturamanoob]

So I got this string:

0xFFFFFF
And how can I use it like a html color?
What is the variable type of 0xFFFFFF?

I tried to convert it to int but didn't work.

I want to use that string as a color to fill the screen.

[loell]

how about..


int(0xFFFFFF)

[CptPicard]

It's a hexadecimal three-byte int, of value



>>> 0xFFFFFF
16777215


(as RGB color, that would be black)

I am not sure what exactly the problem is...

[crazyfuturamanoob]

It is white as rgbcolor. I want to convert string "0xFFFFFF" to int. How?
int(0xFFFFFF) gives me an error

Here is the error:


>>> test = int(test)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0xFFFFFF'
>>>

test was a string containing "0xFFFFFF"

[CptPicard]

It is white as rgbcolor.

Whoops, yes, you're right.



I want to convert string "0xFFFFFF" to int. How?


Well, I am currently googling here for you on something like "python parsing hexadecimal string to int".. see if you get there first ;)


int(0xFFFFFF) gives me an error.

It shouldn't... 0xFFFFFF is a literal representation of a number in hex, and it turns automatically to an int, so int(...) is an unnecessary step (at least here it works fine, but it's about has pointless as saying int(5)).

[crazyfuturamanoob]

Solved! It goes like this:


test = "0xFFFFFF"
test = int(test, 16)

[crazyfuturamanoob]

Found it out with int.__doc__:

>>> print int.__doc__
int(x[, base]) -> integer

Convert a string or number to an integer, if possible. A floating point
argument will be truncated towards zero (this does not include a string
representation of a floating point number!) When converting a string, use
the optional base. It is an error to supply a base when converting a
non-string. If the argument is outside the integer range a long object
will be returned instead.
>>>

[ghostdog74]

Python has made it easy such that we forgot how to do the basic stuffs.
Eg FFFE = ( decimal value of "E" * 16 ^ 0) + (decimal value of "F" * 16 ^ 1 ) + ( ...and so on ).
You can easily create such a function yourself.