How to convert string to hex integer in Python?

Question

hi I get user argv from the command line as follows: '0x000aff00'

and I want python to treat it as hex directly ...

str = sys.argv[1]

how is this possible? thanks!

Answer 1

Try: i = int(sys.argv[1], 16)

Answer 2

try:
    i = int(sys.argv[1], 16)
except Exception,e:
    print e
else:
    # carry on