> I saw "try: int() except:" pattern in many places through all the Zope
> code. I think catching ValueError only does the job, but then we should
> replace it in all the places. :-)
Yes, catching ValueError is sufficient for string conversions to int.
I thought you could get an OverflowError, but that can only happen
when the input is a Python long or float -- int("999999999999999")
raises ValueError, as does int("xxx").
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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