On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The perl version of this code works but not the python version. What am > I doing wrong? > > message = "abc" > password = "z12" > > scrambled = message ^ password
"abc" XOR "z12"? Strings don't have an __xor__ method. > I also wondered why this errored as well... > > int(messege) > > Is it not meant to convert a string to a number? If you were Python how would you convert "abc" to a number? :) Yes, I know Perl makes "0" from anything that doesn't look like a number but Python's principle is to never hide errors while Perl makes certain assumptions. So Python prefers to complain. Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
