Jeff Epler jepler at inetnebr.com
Sun Jul 18 18:29:02 EDT 1999

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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:55:58 GMT, Harold Gottschalk
 <heg at softbrew.com> wrote:
>I just wrote this program to become familiar with python and I do not
>understand why it works with a list I create with in the program and not
>when I use sys.argv[1:].

try it with
	for value in map(int, sys.argv[1:]):
or else you're working with strings.  It's come up before that "string <
int" doesn't cause an exception, but I don't remeber what the good reason
for it was.

Jeff
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